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.
BODHIDHARMAAnd as long as you’re subject to birth and death, you’ll never attain enlightenment.
More Bodhidharma Quotes
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The Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting.
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All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
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Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will.
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Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.
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Life and death are important. Don’t suffer them in vain.
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Everything sacred, nothing sacred.
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And as long as you’re subject to birth and death, you’ll never attain enlightenment.
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The 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.
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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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To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.
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This one life has no form and is empty by nature. If you become attached by any form, you should reject it. If you see an ego, a soul, a birth, or a death, reject them all.
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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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Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.
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Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.
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But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.
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