You can’t know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.
BODHIDHARMABuddhas don’t practice nonsense.
More Bodhidharma Quotes
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Whoever 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.
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Many roads lead to the Path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.
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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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To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.
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Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.
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Neither gods nor men can foresee when an evil deed will bear its fruit.
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But when you first embark on the Path, your awareness won’t be focused. You’re likely to see all sorts of strange, dreamlike scenes. But you shouldn’t doubt that all such scenes come from your own mind and nowhere else.
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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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Our true buddha-nature has no shape. And the dust of affliction has no form.
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The mind is always present. You just don’t see it.
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Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.
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Not thinking about anything is zen. Once you know this, walking, standing, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is zen. To know that the mind is empty is to see the buddha…. Using the mind to reality is delusion. Not using the mind to look for reality is awareness. Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
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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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Those who worship don’t know, and those who know don’t worship.
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But deluded people don’t realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside.
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