Trying to find a buddha or enlightenment is like trying to grab space.
BODHIDHARMADon’t hate life and death or love life and death. Keep your every thought free of delusion, and in life you’ll witness the beginning of nirvana, and in death you’ll experience the assurance of no rebirth.
More Bodhidharma Quotes
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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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Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.
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Someone who seeks the Way doesn’t look beyond himself.
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I do not need any writing, since I transmit teaching beyond words and ideas.
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Reality has no inside, outside, or middle part.
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Neither gods nor men can foresee when an evil deed will bear its fruit.
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But deluded people don’t realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside.
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Leaving behind the false, return to the true: make no discriminations between self and others. In contemplation, one’s mind should be stable and unmoving, like a wall.
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Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.
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Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.
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The ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They’re not the Way.
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Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.
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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 awareness of mortals falls short. As long as they’re attached to appearances, they’re unaware that their minds are empty. And by mistakenly clinging to the appearance of things they lose the Way.
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If you use your mind to look for a Buddha, you won’t see the Buddha.
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