Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
BODHIDHARMAThose who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.
More Bodhidharma Quotes
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You can’t know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.
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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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The mind is the root from which all things grow. If you can understand the mind, everything else is included.
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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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The essence of the Way is detachment. And the goal of those who practice is freedom from appearances.
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When we’re deluded there’s a world to escape. When we’re aware, there’s nothing to escape.
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The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.
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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 people of the deepest understanding look within, distracted by nothing. Since a clear mind is the Buddha, they attain the understanding of a Buddha without using the mind.
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Neither gods nor men can foresee when an evil deed will bear its fruit.
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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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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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Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.
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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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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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