If we should be blessed by some great reward, such as fame or fortune, it’s the fruit of a seed planted by us in the past.
BODHIDHARMAThe ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.
More Bodhidharma Quotes
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Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen.
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And as long as you’re subject to birth and death, you’ll never attain enlightenment.
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To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.
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Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.
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An Awakened person is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.
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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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To see nothing is to perceive the Way, and to understand nothing is to know the Dharma, because seeing is neither seeing nor not seeing, and because understanding is neither understanding nor not understanding.
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Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.
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The essence of the Way is detachment.
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When we’re deluded there’s a world to escape. When we’re aware, there’s nothing to escape.
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Regardless of what we do, our karma has no hold on us.
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Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
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Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.
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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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Unless you see your nature, all this talk about cause & effect is nonsense. Buddhas don’t practice nonsense.
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