If you use your mind to look for a Buddha, you won’t see the Buddha.
BODHIDHARMAThose who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.
More Bodhidharma Quotes
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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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Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.
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Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.
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Regardless of what we do, our karma has no hold on us.
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As mortals, we’re ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.
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This one life has no form and is empty by nature. If you become attached by any form, you should reject it. If you see an ego, a soul, a birth, or a death, reject them all.
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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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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 mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.
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According to the Sutras, evil deeds result in hardships and good deeds result in blessings.
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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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The Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting.
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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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Life and death are important. Don’t suffer them in vain.
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I do not need any writing, since I transmit teaching beyond words and ideas.
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