The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.
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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Externally keep yourself away from all relationships, and internally have no pantings in your heart; when your mind is like unto a straight-standing wall, you may enter into the Path.
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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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According to the Sutras, evil deeds result in hardships and good deeds result in blessings.
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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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Everything good and bad comes from your own mind. To find something beyond the mind is impossible.
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To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.
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At every moment where language can’t go, that’s your mind.
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Those who worship don’t know, and those who know don’t worship.
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To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.
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You can’t know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.
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And as long as you’re subject to birth and death, you’ll never attain enlightenment.
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Our true buddha-nature has no shape. And the dust of affliction has no form.
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The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.
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As long as you’re enthralled by a lifeless form, you’re not free.
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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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