At every moment where language can’t go, that’s your mind.
BODHIDHARMAThose who worship don’t know, and those who know don’t worship.
More Bodhidharma Quotes
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To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.
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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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To enter by reason means to realize the essence through instruction and to believe that all living things share the same true nature, which isn’t apparent because it’s shrouded by sensation and delusion.
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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.
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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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If we should be blessed by some great reward, such as fame or fortune, it’s the fruit of a seed planted by us in the past.
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If you use your mind to look for a Buddha, you won’t see the Buddha.
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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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I never lost or fail, not yet conquered. If I fall seven times, I get up eight
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When your mind doesn’t stir inside, the world doesn’t arise outside. When the world and the mind are both transparent, this is true vision. And such understanding is true understanding.
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To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.
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Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.
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Someone who seeks the Way doesn’t look beyond himself.
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The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.
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But people of the deepest understanding look within, distracted by nothing. Since a clear mind is the Buddha, they attain the understanding of a Buddha without using the mind.
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