At every moment where language can’t go, that’s your mind.
BODHIDHARMAAt every moment where language can’t go, that’s your mind.
BODHIDHARMABut while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.
BODHIDHARMAOnce you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.
BODHIDHARMALife and death are important. Don’t suffer them in vain.
BODHIDHARMAThose who worship don’t know, and those who know don’t worship.
BODHIDHARMAAn Awakened person is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.
BODHIDHARMAWhoever realizes that the six senses aren’t real, that the five aggregates are fictions, that no such things can be located anywhere in the body, understands the language of Buddhas.
BODHIDHARMAMany roads lead to the Path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.
BODHIDHARMAThe ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.
BODHIDHARMAOnce you stop clinging and let things be, you’ll be free, even of birth and death. You’ll transform everything.
BODHIDHARMAAll Buddhas preach emptiness. Why? Because they wish to crush the concrete ideas of the students. If a student even clings to an idea of emptiness, he betrays all Buddhas.
BODHIDHARMAThe mind is always present. You just don’t see it.
BODHIDHARMAWhoever knows that the mind is a fiction and devoid of anything real knows that his own mind neither exists nor doesn’t exist.
BODHIDHARMAAll the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
BODHIDHARMADelusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.
BODHIDHARMAAll know the way, but few actually walk it.
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