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.
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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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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Buddhas don’t practice nonsense.
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Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher’s help.
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Without the mind there is no Buddha. Without the Buddha there’s no mind.
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When we’re deluded there’s a world to escape. When we’re aware, there’s nothing to escape.
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The mind is always present. You just don’t see it.
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An Awakened person is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.
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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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As long as you’re enthralled by a lifeless form, you’re not free.
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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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Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.
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To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.
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Everything good and bad comes from your own mind. To find something beyond the mind is impossible.
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