Whoever knows that the mind is a fiction and devoid of anything real knows that his own mind neither exists nor doesn’t exist.
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’re enthralled by a lifeless form, you’re not free.
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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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The essence of the Way is detachment.
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Someone who seeks the Way doesn’t look beyond himself.
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All know the way, but few actually walk it.
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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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An Awakened person is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.
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Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher’s help.
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Many roads lead to the Path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.
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Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.
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Trying to find a buddha or enlightenment is like trying to grab space.
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Worship means reverence and humility. It means revering your real self and humbling delusions. If you can wipe out evil desires and harbor good thoughts, even if nothing shows, it’s worship. Such form is its real form.
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To have a body is to suffer.
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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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