To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.
BODHIDHARMARegardless of what we do, our karma has no hold on us.
More Bodhidharma Quotes
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Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.
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Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.
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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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Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher’s help.
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If you use your mind to look for a Buddha, you won’t see the Buddha.
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An Awakened person is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.
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The essence of the Way is detachment.
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Our true buddha-nature has no shape. And the dust of affliction has no form.
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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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Everything good and bad comes from your own mind. To find something beyond the mind is impossible.
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Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.
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And as long as you’re subject to birth and death, you’ll never attain enlightenment.
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Without the mind there is no Buddha. Without the Buddha there’s no mind.
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The Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting.
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If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.
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