I do not need any writing, since I transmit teaching beyond words and ideas.
BODHIDHARMAIn order to see a fish you must watch the water
More Bodhidharma Quotes
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The essence of the Way is detachment. And the goal of those who practice is freedom from appearances.
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An Awakened person is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.
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Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher’s help.
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To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.
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Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.
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One clings to life although there is nothing to be called life; another clings to death although there is nothing to be called death. In reality, there is nothing to be born; consequently, there is nothing to perish.
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But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.
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In order to see a fish you must watch the water
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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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Everything good and bad comes from your own mind. To find something beyond the mind is impossible.
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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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The true Way is sublime. It can’t be expressed in language. Of what use are scriptures? But someone who sees his own nature finds the Way, even if he can’t read a word.
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Without the mind there is no Buddha. Without the Buddha there’s no mind.
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As long as you’re enthralled by a lifeless form, you’re not free.
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Trying to find a buddha or enlightenment is like trying to grab space.
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