I never lost or fail, not yet conquered. If I fall seven times, I get up eight
BODHIDHARMAMany roads lead to the Path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.
More Bodhidharma Quotes
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Someone who seeks the Way doesn’t look beyond himself.
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To have a body is to suffer.
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Once you stop clinging and let things be, you’ll be free, even of birth and death. You’ll transform everything.
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To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.
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All know the way, but few actually walk it.
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To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.
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The Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting.
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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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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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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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Everything good and bad comes from your own mind. To find something beyond the mind is impossible.
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When your mind doesn’t stir inside, the world doesn’t arise outside. When the world and the mind are both transparent, this is true vision. And such understanding is true understanding.
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The ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They’re not the Way.
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Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher’s help.
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Don’t hate life and death or love life and death. Keep your every thought free of delusion, and in life you’ll witness the beginning of nirvana, and in death you’ll experience the assurance of no rebirth.
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