Once you stop clinging and let things be, you’ll be free, even of birth and death. You’ll transform everything.
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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The Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting.
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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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All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
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Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.
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Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen.
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People of this world are deluded. They’re always longing for something – always, in a word, seeking.
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And the Buddha is the person who’s free: free of plans, free of cares.
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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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An Awakened person is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.
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Many roads lead to the Path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.
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Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher’s help.
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At every moment where language can’t go, that’s your mind.
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Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.
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Trying to find a buddha or enlightenment is like trying to grab space.
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Regardless of what we do, our karma has no hold on us.
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