When mortals are alive, they worry about death. When they’re full, they worry about hunger. Theirs is the Great Uncertainty. But sages don’t consider the past. And they don’t worry about the future. Nor do they cling to the present. And from moment to moment they follow the Way.
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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All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
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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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The mind is always present. You just don’t see it.
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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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Regardless of what we do, our karma has no hold on us.
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The true Way is sublime. It can’t be expressed in language. Of what use are scriptures? But someone who sees his own nature finds the Way, even if he can’t read a word.
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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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Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.
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To have a body is to suffer.
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Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.
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Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.
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Reality has no inside, outside, or middle part.
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Not creating delusions is enlightenment.
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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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At every moment where language can’t go, that’s your mind.
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