Not creating delusions is enlightenment.
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Those who worship don’t know, and those who know don’t worship.
More Bodhidharma Quotes
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Not creating delusions is enlightenment.
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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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The essence of the Way is detachment. And the goal of those who practice is freedom from appearances.
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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.
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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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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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Reality has no inside, outside, or middle part.
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People 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.
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Without the mind there is no Buddha. Without the Buddha there’s no mind.
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Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.
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Whoever knows that the mind is a fiction and devoid of anything real knows that his own mind neither exists nor doesn’t exist.
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If you use your mind to look for a Buddha, you won’t see the Buddha.
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The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.
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One clings to life although there is nothing to be called life; another clings to death although there is nothing to be called death. In reality, there is nothing to be born; consequently, there is nothing to perish.
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