Reality has no inside, outside, or middle part.
BODHIDHARMANeither gods nor men can foresee when an evil deed will bear its fruit.
More Bodhidharma Quotes
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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 find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.
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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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Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher’s help.
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The true Way is sublime. It can’t be expressed in language. Of what use are scriptures? But someone who sees his own nature finds the Way, even if he can’t read a word.
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You can’t know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.
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But this mind isn’t somewhere outside the material body of the four elements. Without this mind we can’t move. The body has no awareness. Like a plant or a stone, the body has no nature. So how does it move? It’s the mind that moves.
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At every moment where language can’t go, that’s your mind.
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Our true buddha-nature has no shape. And the dust of affliction has no form.
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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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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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Everything good and bad comes from your own mind. To find something beyond the mind is impossible.
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To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.
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Not thinking about anything is zen. Once you know this, walking, standing, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is zen. To know that the mind is empty is to see the buddha…. Using the mind to reality is delusion. Not using the mind to look for reality is awareness. Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
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If you see your nature, you don’t need to read sutras or invoke buddhas. Erudition and knowledge are not only useless but also cloud your awareness. Doctrines are only for pointing to the mind. Once you see your mind, why pay attention to doctrines?
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