People who don’t see their own nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are liars and fools.
BODHIDHARMAPeople who don’t see their own nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are liars and fools.
BODHIDHARMADelusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.
BODHIDHARMAOnce you stop clinging and let things be, you’ll be free, even of birth and death. You’ll transform everything.
BODHIDHARMANot engaging in ignorance is wisdom.
BODHIDHARMALeaving 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.
BODHIDHARMAWhen 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.
BODHIDHARMATo find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.
BODHIDHARMAThe mind’s capacity is limitless, and its manifestations are inexhaustible. Seeing forms with your eyes, hearing sounds with your ears, smelling odors with your nose, tasting flavors with your tongue, every movement or state is all your mind.
BODHIDHARMATo 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.
BODHIDHARMAAnd the Buddha is the person who’s free: free of plans, free of cares.
BODHIDHARMAThe Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting.
BODHIDHARMAI never lost or fail, not yet conquered. If I fall seven times, I get up eight
BODHIDHARMABuddhas don’t practice nonsense.
BODHIDHARMAAn Awakened person is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.
BODHIDHARMAWhen you don’t understand, you depend on reality. When you do understand, reality depends on you.
BODHIDHARMAYou can’t know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.
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