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.
BODHIDHARMANot engaging in ignorance is wisdom.
More Bodhidharma Quotes
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If you see your nature, you don’t need to read sutras or invoke buddhas. Erudition and knowledge are not only useless but also cloud your awareness. Doctrines are only for pointing to the mind. Once you see your mind, why pay attention to doctrines?
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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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Buddhas don’t practice nonsense.
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The Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting.
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The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.
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Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.
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As long as you’re enthralled by a lifeless form, you’re not free.
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Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher’s help.
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Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will.
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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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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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Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.
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All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
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All Buddhas preach emptiness. Why? Because they wish to crush the concrete ideas of the students. If a student even clings to an idea of emptiness, he betrays all Buddhas.
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People who don’t see their own nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are liars and fools.
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