The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.
BODHIDHARMAThose who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.
More Bodhidharma Quotes
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The mind is always present. You just don’t see it.
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Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.
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Someone who seeks the Way doesn’t look beyond himself.
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Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.
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If you use your mind to study reality, you won’t understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you’ll understand both.
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To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.
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The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.
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To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.
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According to the Sutras, evil deeds result in hardships and good deeds result in blessings.
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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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To have a body is to suffer.
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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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And as long as you’re subject to birth and death, you’ll never attain enlightenment.
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The essence of the Way is detachment.
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Not thinking about anything is zen. Once you know this, walking, standing, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is zen. To know that the mind is empty is to see the buddha…. Using the mind to reality is delusion. Not using the mind to look for reality is awareness. Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
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