Bodhidharma on buddha
Bodhidharma93 quotes“To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.”
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When mortals are alive, they worry about death. When they’re full, they worry about hunger. Theirs is the Great Uncertainty. But sages don’t consider the past. And they don’t worry about the future. Nor do they cling to the present. And from moment to moment they follow the Way.
BodhidharmaBodhidharma People of this world are deluded. They’re always longing for something – always, in a word, seeking.
BodhidharmaBodhidharma All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
BodhidharmaBodhidharma Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.
BodhidharmaBodhidharma As long as you’re enthralled by a lifeless form, you’re not free.
BodhidharmaBodhidharma Worship means reverence and humility. It means revering your real self and humbling delusions. If you can wipe out evil desires and harbor good thoughts, even if nothing shows, it’s worship. Such form is its real form.
BodhidharmaBodhidharma Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
BodhidharmaBodhidharma All know the way, but few actually walk it.
BodhidharmaBodhidharma Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.
BodhidharmaBodhidharma Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will.
BodhidharmaBodhidharma Not creating delusions is enlightenment.
BodhidharmaBodhidharma Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.
BodhidharmaBodhidharma The Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting.
BodhidharmaBodhidharma I never lost or fail, not yet conquered. If I fall seven times, I get up eight
BodhidharmaBodhidharma The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.
BodhidharmaBodhidharma And the Buddha is the person who’s free: free of plans, free of cares.
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Unless you see your nature, all this talk about cause & effect is nonsense. Buddhas don’t practice nonsense.
BodhidharmaBodhidharma Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.
BodhidharmaBodhidharma There are those who, attracted by grass, flowers, mountains, and waters, flow into the Buddha Way.
DogenDogen People like what is not true and they don’t like what is true.
DogenDogen The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.
BodhidharmaBodhidharma And the Buddha is the person who’s free: free of plans, free of cares.
BodhidharmaBodhidharma If you see your nature, you don’t need to read sutras or invoke buddhas. Erudition and knowledge are not only useless but also cloud your awareness. Doctrines are only for pointing to the mind. Once you see your mind, why pay attention to doctrines?
BodhidharmaBodhidharma If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.
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