As long as you’re enthralled by a lifeless form, you’re not free.
BODHIDHARMAThose who worship don’t know, and those who know don’t worship.
More Bodhidharma Quotes
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Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.
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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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Buddhas don’t practice nonsense.
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The ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They’re not the Way.
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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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Don’t hate life and death or love life and death. Keep your every thought free of delusion, and in life you’ll witness the beginning of nirvana, and in death you’ll experience the assurance of no rebirth.
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According to the Sutras, evil deeds result in hardships and good deeds result in blessings.
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Reality has no inside, outside, or middle part.
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Trying to find a buddha or enlightenment is like trying to grab space.
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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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You can’t know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.
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Externally keep yourself away from all relationships, and internally have no pantings in your heart; when your mind is like unto a straight-standing wall, you may enter into the Path.
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Everything sacred, nothing sacred.
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Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.
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As mortals, we’re ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.
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