Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
BODHIDHARMAAnd as long as you’re subject to birth and death, you’ll never attain enlightenment.
More Bodhidharma Quotes
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The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.
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To go from mortal to Buddha, you have to put an end to karma, nurture your awareness, and accept what life brings.
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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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Someone who seeks the Way doesn’t look beyond himself.
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The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.
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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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Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.
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When your mind doesn’t stir inside, the world doesn’t arise outside. When the world and the mind are both transparent, this is true vision. And such understanding is true understanding.
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Leaving behind the false, return to the true: make no discriminations between self and others. In contemplation, one’s mind should be stable and unmoving, like a wall.
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And the Buddha is the person who’s free: free of plans, free of cares.
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All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
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Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.
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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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To have a body is to suffer. Does anyone with a body know peace? Those who understand this detach themselves from all that exists and stop imagining or seeking anything. The sutras say, “To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.” When you seek nothing, you’re on the Path.
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But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.
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