Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
BODHIDHARMAMany roads lead to the Path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.
More Bodhidharma Quotes
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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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All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
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When you don’t understand, you depend on reality. When you do understand, reality depends on you.
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The ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They’re not the Way.
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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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Still others commit all sorts of evil deeds, claiming karma doesn’t exist. They erroneously maintain that since everything is empty, committing evil isn’t wrong. Such persons fall into a hell of endless darkness with no hope of release. Those who are wise hold no such conception.
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To have a body is to suffer.
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Everything sacred, nothing sacred.
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To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.
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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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If we should be blessed by some great reward, such as fame or fortune, it’s the fruit of a seed planted by us in the past.
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Reality has no inside, outside, or middle part.
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The Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting. The Way has no form or sound. It’s subtle and hard to perceive. It’s like when you drink water: you know how hot or cold it is, but you can’t tell others.
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Our true buddha-nature has no shape. And the dust of affliction has no form.
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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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