Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
BODHIDHARMABuddhas don’t practice nonsense.
More Bodhidharma Quotes
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The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.
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Regardless of what we do, our karma has no hold on us.
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Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.
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Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.
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Our true buddha-nature has no shape. And the dust of affliction has no form.
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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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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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And as long as you’re subject to birth and death, you’ll never attain enlightenment.
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Those who worship don’t know, and those who know don’t worship.
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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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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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In order to see a fish you must watch the water
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When we’re deluded there’s a world to escape. When we’re aware, there’s nothing to escape.
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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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