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.
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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Not creating delusions is enlightenment.
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People of this world are deluded. They’re always longing for something – always, in a word, seeking.
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To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.
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If you see your nature, you don’t need to read sutras or invoke buddhas. Erudition and knowledge are not only useless but also cloud your awareness. Doctrines are only for pointing to the mind. Once you see your mind, why pay attention to doctrines?
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This one life has no form and is empty by nature. If you become attached by any form, you should reject it. If you see an ego, a soul, a birth, or a death, reject them all.
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Everything sacred, nothing sacred.
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If you use your mind to study reality, you won’t understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you’ll understand both.
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To have a body is to suffer.
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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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The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.
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The ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They’re not the Way.
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To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.
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To enter by reason means to realize the essence through instruction and to believe that all living things share the same true nature, which isn’t apparent because it’s shrouded by sensation and delusion.
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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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All know the way, but few actually walk it.
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