All know the way, but few actually walk it.
BODHIDHARMAAccording to the Sutras, evil deeds result in hardships and good deeds result in blessings.
More Bodhidharma Quotes
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Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.
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Externally keep yourself away from all relationships, and internally have no pantings in your heart; when your mind is like unto a straight-standing wall, you may enter into the Path.
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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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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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To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.
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Unless you see your nature, all this talk about cause & effect is nonsense. Buddhas don’t practice nonsense.
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Someone who seeks the Way doesn’t look beyond himself.
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Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.
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The mind’s capacity is limitless, and its manifestations are inexhaustible. Seeing forms with your eyes, hearing sounds with your ears, smelling odors with your nose, tasting flavors with your tongue, every movement or state is all your mind.
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Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.
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All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
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Trying to find a buddha or enlightenment is like trying to grab space.
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Don’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.
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The mind is always present. You just don’t see it.
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Still others commit all sorts of evil deeds, claiming karma doesn’t exist. They erroneously maintain that since everything is empty, committing evil isn’t wrong. Such persons fall into a hell of endless darkness with no hope of release. Those who are wise hold no such conception.
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