Neither gods nor men can foresee when an evil deed will bear its fruit.
BODHIDHARMAMany roads lead to the Path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.
More Bodhidharma Quotes
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Not creating delusions is enlightenment.
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If you use your mind to study reality, you won’t understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you’ll understand both.
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Many roads lead to the Path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.
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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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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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The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.
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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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Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher’s help.
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The ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They’re not the Way.
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Leaving behind the false, return to the true: make no discriminations between self and others. In contemplation, one’s mind should be stable and unmoving, like a wall.
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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 of this world are deluded. They’re always longing for something, always, in a word, seeking. But the wise wake up. They choose reason over custom. They fix their minds on the sublime and let their bodies change with the seasons.
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To have a body is to suffer.
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To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.
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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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