Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.
BODHIDHARMAWhen we’re deluded there’s a world to escape. When we’re aware, there’s nothing to escape.
More Bodhidharma Quotes
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Someone who seeks the Way doesn’t look beyond himself.
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As mortals, we’re ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.
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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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But when you first embark on the Path, your awareness won’t be focused. You’re likely to see all sorts of strange, dreamlike scenes. But you shouldn’t doubt that all such scenes come from your own mind and nowhere else.
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Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher’s help.
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Regardless of what we do, our karma has no hold on us.
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The true Way is sublime. It can’t be expressed in language. Of what use are scriptures? But someone who sees his own nature finds the Way, even if he can’t read a word.
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An Awakened person is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.
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Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.
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Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.
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At every moment where language can’t go, that’s your mind.
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The mind is the root from which all things grow. If you can understand the mind, everything else is included.
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To have a body is to suffer.
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If you use your mind to look for a Buddha, you won’t see the Buddha.
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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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