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.
BODHIDHARMANot engaging in ignorance is wisdom.
More Bodhidharma Quotes
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At every moment where language can’t go, that’s your mind.
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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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People of this world are deluded. They’re always longing for something, always, in a word, seeking. But the wise wake up. They choose reason over custom. They fix their minds on the sublime and let their bodies change with the seasons.
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If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.
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To have a body is to suffer.
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Life and death are important. Don’t suffer them in vain.
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All know the way, but few actually walk it.
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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.
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But this mind isn’t somewhere outside the material body of the four elements. Without this mind we can’t move. The body has no awareness. Like a plant or a stone, the body has no nature. So how does it move? It’s the mind that moves.
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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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Our true buddha-nature has no shape. And the dust of affliction has no form.
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And as long as you’re subject to birth and death, you’ll never attain enlightenment.
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Externally keep yourself away from all relationships, and internally have no pantings in your heart; when your mind is like unto a straight-standing wall, you may enter into the Path.
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As mortals, we’re ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.
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To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.
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