Buddhas don’t practice nonsense.
BODHIDHARMAMany roads lead to the Path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.
More Bodhidharma Quotes
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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 Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting.
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The mind is always present. You just don’t see it.
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Without the mind there is no Buddha. Without the Buddha there’s no mind.
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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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To have a body is to suffer. Does anyone with a body know peace? Those who understand this detach themselves from all that exists and stop imagining or seeking anything. The sutras say, “To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.” When you seek nothing, you’re on the Path.
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Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.
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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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An Awakened person is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.
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Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will.
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Someone who seeks the Way doesn’t look beyond himself.
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Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.
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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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Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.
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If you use your mind to look for a Buddha, you won’t see the Buddha.
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