The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.
BODHIDHARMAAnd as long as you’re subject to birth and death, you’ll never attain enlightenment.
More Bodhidharma Quotes
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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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People who don’t see their own nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are liars and fools.
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Life and death are important. Don’t suffer them in vain.
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Don’t hate life and death or love life and death. Keep your every thought free of delusion, and in life you’ll witness the beginning of nirvana, and in death you’ll experience the assurance of no rebirth.
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As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you’ll never see that your own mind is the Buddha
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And the Buddha is the person who’s free: free of plans, free of cares.
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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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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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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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Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen.
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In order to see a fish you must watch the water
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The mind is always present. You just don’t see it.
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Trying to find a buddha or enlightenment is like trying to grab space.
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Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.
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Regardless of what we do, our karma has no hold on us.
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