The Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting.
BODHIDHARMAAnd as long as you’re subject to birth and death, you’ll never attain enlightenment.
More Bodhidharma Quotes
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Buddhas don’t practice nonsense.
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In order to see a fish you must watch the water
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Without the mind there is no Buddha. Without the Buddha there’s no mind.
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Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
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But when you first embark on the Path, your awareness won’t be focused. You’re likely to see all sorts of strange, dreamlike scenes. But you shouldn’t doubt that all such scenes come from your own mind and nowhere else.
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You can’t know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.
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Reality has no inside, outside, or middle part.
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Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.
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Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.
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Our true buddha-nature has no shape. And the dust of affliction has no form.
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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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Many roads lead to the Path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.
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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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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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But this mind isn’t somewhere outside the material body of the four elements. Without this mind we can’t move. The body has no awareness. Like a plant or a stone, the body has no nature. So how does it move? It’s the mind that moves.
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