Our true buddha-nature has no shape. And the dust of affliction has no form.
BODHIDHARMAThose who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.
More Bodhidharma Quotes
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To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.
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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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Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.
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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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You can’t know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.
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Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.
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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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As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you’ll never see that your own mind is the Buddha
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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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To enter by reason means to realize the essence through instruction and to believe that all living things share the same true nature, which isn’t apparent because it’s shrouded by sensation and delusion.
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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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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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When you don’t understand, you depend on reality. When you do understand, reality depends on you.
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Reality has no inside, outside, or middle part.
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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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