Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.
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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The Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting.
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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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Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.
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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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Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher’s help.
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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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Those who worship don’t know, and those who know don’t worship.
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This one life has no form and is empty by nature. If you become attached by any form, you should reject it. If you see an ego, a soul, a birth, or a death, reject them all.
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The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.
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The awareness of mortals falls short. As long as they’re attached to appearances, they’re unaware that their minds are empty. And by mistakenly clinging to the appearance of things they lose the Way.
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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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Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will.
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If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.
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Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
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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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