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.
BODHIDHARMAStill others commit all sorts of evil deeds, claiming karma doesn’t exist. They erroneously maintain that since everything is empty, committing evil isn’t wrong. Such persons fall into a hell of endless darkness with no hope of release. Those who are wise hold no such conception.
More Bodhidharma Quotes
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Trying to find a buddha or enlightenment is like trying to grab space.
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Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.
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But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.
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Without the mind there is no Buddha. Without the Buddha there’s no mind.
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To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.
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Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.
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Life and death are important. Don’t suffer them in vain.
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I do not need any writing, since I transmit teaching beyond words and ideas.
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As long as you’re enthralled by a lifeless form, you’re not free.
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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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Reality has no inside, outside, or middle part.
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Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.
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But people of the deepest understanding look within, distracted by nothing. Since a clear mind is the Buddha, they attain the understanding of a Buddha without using the mind.
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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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But deluded people don’t realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside.
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