To have a body is to suffer. Does anyone with a body know peace? Those who understand this detach themselves from all that exists and stop imagining or seeking anything. The sutras say, “To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.” When you seek nothing, you’re on the Path.
BODHIDHARMAPeople of this world are deluded. They’re always longing for something, always, in a word, seeking. But the wise wake up. They choose reason over custom. They fix their minds on the sublime and let their bodies change with the seasons.
More Bodhidharma Quotes
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Without the mind there is no Buddha. Without the Buddha there’s no mind.
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To see nothing is to perceive the Way, and to understand nothing is to know the Dharma, because seeing is neither seeing nor not seeing, and because understanding is neither understanding nor not understanding.
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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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And the Buddha is the person who’s free: free of plans, free of cares.
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Everything sacred, nothing sacred.
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The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.
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Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher’s help.
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To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.
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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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Not thinking about anything is zen. Once you know this, walking, standing, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is zen. To know that the mind is empty is to see the buddha…. Using the mind to reality is delusion. Not using the mind to look for reality is awareness. Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
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But when you first embark on the Path, your awareness won’t be focused. You’re likely to see all sorts of strange, dreamlike scenes. But you shouldn’t doubt that all such scenes come from your own mind and nowhere else.
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As long as you’re enthralled by a lifeless form, you’re not free.
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Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.
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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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Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.
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