Buddhas don’t practice nonsense.
BODHIDHARMAAs long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you’ll never see that your own mind is the Buddha
More Bodhidharma Quotes
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Without the mind there is no Buddha. Without the Buddha there’s no mind.
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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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The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.
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Many roads lead to the Path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.
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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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The essence of the Way is detachment. And the goal of those who practice is freedom from appearances.
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To see nothing is to perceive the Way, and to understand nothing is to know the Dharma, because seeing is neither seeing nor not seeing, and because understanding is neither understanding nor not understanding.
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Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.
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Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
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In order to see a fish you must watch the water
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Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.
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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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The Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting.
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The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.
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All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
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