Bodhidharma on suffer
Bodhidharma93 quotes“Life and death are important. Don’t suffer them in vain.”
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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.
BodhidharmaBodhidharma Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.
BodhidharmaBodhidharma When mortals are alive, they worry about death. When they’re full, they worry about hunger. Theirs is the Great Uncertainty. But sages don’t consider the past. And they don’t worry about the future. Nor do they cling to the present. And from moment to moment they follow the Way.
BodhidharmaBodhidharma People of this world are deluded. They’re always longing for something – always, in a word, seeking.
BodhidharmaBodhidharma All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
BodhidharmaBodhidharma Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.
BodhidharmaBodhidharma As long as you’re enthralled by a lifeless form, you’re not free.
BodhidharmaBodhidharma Worship means reverence and humility. It means revering your real self and humbling delusions. If you can wipe out evil desires and harbor good thoughts, even if nothing shows, it’s worship. Such form is its real form.
BodhidharmaBodhidharma Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
BodhidharmaBodhidharma All know the way, but few actually walk it.
BodhidharmaBodhidharma Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.
BodhidharmaBodhidharma Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will.
BodhidharmaBodhidharma Not creating delusions is enlightenment.
BodhidharmaBodhidharma Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.
BodhidharmaBodhidharma The Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting.
BodhidharmaBodhidharma I never lost or fail, not yet conquered. If I fall seven times, I get up eight
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Pliny the ElderPliny the Elder Formerly we suffered from crimes; now we suffer from laws.
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Tutu DesmondTutu Desmond i cannot breathe in any more sadness-suffering.
Charlie GilbertCharlie Gilbert Dear Child of God, I write these words because we all experience sadness, we all come at times to despair, and we all lose hope that the suffering in our lives and in the world will ever end.
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