The essence of the Way is detachment. And the goal of those who practice is freedom from appearances.
BODHIDHARMANot engaging in ignorance is wisdom.
More Bodhidharma Quotes
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Whoever realizes that the six senses aren’t real, that the five aggregates are fictions, that no such things can be located anywhere in the body, understands the language of Buddhas.
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When mortals are alive, they worry about death. When they’re full, they worry about hunger. Theirs is the Great Uncertainty. But sages don’t consider the past. And they don’t worry about the future. Nor do they cling to the present. And from moment to moment they follow the Way.
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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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Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.
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Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.
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To go from mortal to Buddha, you have to put an end to karma, nurture your awareness, and accept what life brings.
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I do not need any writing, since I transmit teaching beyond words and ideas.
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Buddhas don’t practice nonsense.
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People of this world are deluded. They’re always longing for something – always, in a word, seeking.
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Whoever knows that the mind is a fiction and devoid of anything real knows that his own mind neither exists nor doesn’t exist.
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Life and death are important. Don’t suffer them in vain.
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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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At every moment where language can’t go, that’s your mind.
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Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher’s help.
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Our true buddha-nature has no shape. And the dust of affliction has no form.
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