But when you first embark on the Path, your awareness won’t be focused. You’re likely to see all sorts of strange, dreamlike scenes. But you shouldn’t doubt that all such scenes come from your own mind and nowhere else.
BODHIDHARMASomeone who seeks the Way doesn’t look beyond himself.
More Bodhidharma Quotes
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If we should be blessed by some great reward, such as fame or fortune, it’s the fruit of a seed planted by us in the past.
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Externally keep yourself away from all relationships, and internally have no pantings in your heart; when your mind is like unto a straight-standing wall, you may enter into the Path.
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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.
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Everything good and bad comes from your own mind. To find something beyond the mind is impossible.
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Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher’s help.
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The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.
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The ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They’re not the Way.
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When you don’t understand, you depend on reality. When you do understand, reality depends on you.
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At every moment where language can’t go, that’s your mind.
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You can’t know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.
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Neither gods nor men can foresee when an evil deed will bear its fruit.
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I never lost or fail, not yet conquered. If I fall seven times, I get up eight
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But deluded people don’t realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside.
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I do not need any writing, since I transmit teaching beyond words and ideas.
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Regardless of what we do, our karma has no hold on us.
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