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.
BODHIDHARMAAnd as long as you’re subject to birth and death, you’ll never attain enlightenment.
More Bodhidharma Quotes
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To have a body is to suffer.
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Not creating delusions is enlightenment.
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Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.
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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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All know the way, but few actually walk it.
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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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To go from mortal to Buddha, you have to put an end to karma, nurture your awareness, and accept what life brings.
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Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will.
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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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Whoever knows that the mind is a fiction and devoid of anything real knows that his own mind neither exists nor doesn’t exist.
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The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.
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But people of the deepest understanding look within, distracted by nothing. Since a clear mind is the Buddha, they attain the understanding of a Buddha without using the mind.
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And the Buddha is the person who’s free: free of plans, free of cares.
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If you use your mind to look for a Buddha, you won’t see the Buddha.
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One clings to life although there is nothing to be called life; another clings to death although there is nothing to be called death. In reality, there is nothing to be born; consequently, there is nothing to perish.
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