Those who worship don’t know, and those who know don’t worship.
BODHIDHARMAAll Buddhas preach emptiness. Why? Because they wish to crush the concrete ideas of the students. If a student even clings to an idea of emptiness, he betrays all Buddhas.
More Bodhidharma Quotes
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Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.
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In order to see a fish you must watch the water
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The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.
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People of this world are deluded. They’re always longing for something, always, in a word, seeking. But the wise wake up. They choose reason over custom. They fix their minds on the sublime and let their bodies change with the seasons.
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Unless you see your nature, all this talk about cause & effect is nonsense. Buddhas don’t practice nonsense.
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If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.
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Not creating delusions is enlightenment.
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As mortals, we’re ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.
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Whoever knows that the mind is a fiction and devoid of anything real knows that his own mind neither exists nor doesn’t exist.
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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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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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But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.
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The essence of the Way is detachment.
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Whoever realizes that the six senses aren’t real, that the five aggregates are fictions, that no such things can be located anywhere in the body, understands the language of Buddhas.
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When we’re deluded there’s a world to escape. When we’re aware, there’s nothing to escape.
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