Everything good and bad comes from your own mind. To find something beyond the mind is impossible.
BODHIDHARMAAt every moment where language can’t go, that’s your mind.
More Bodhidharma Quotes
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The mind’s capacity is limitless, and its manifestations are inexhaustible. Seeing forms with your eyes, hearing sounds with your ears, smelling odors with your nose, tasting flavors with your tongue, every movement or state is all your mind.
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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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People who don’t see their own nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are liars and fools.
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Many roads lead to the Path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.
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If you use your mind to look for a Buddha, you won’t see the Buddha.
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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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Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.
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Once you stop clinging and let things be, you’ll be free, even of birth and death. You’ll transform everything.
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The mind is always present. You just don’t see it.
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Not creating delusions is enlightenment.
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To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.
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As mortals, we’re ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.
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Someone who seeks the Way doesn’t look beyond himself.
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Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
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Regardless of what we do, our karma has no hold on us.
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