Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.
BODHIDHARMATo go from mortal to Buddha, you have to put an end to karma, nurture your awareness, and accept what life brings.
More Bodhidharma Quotes
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Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.
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Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.
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And the Buddha is the person who’s free: free of plans, free of cares.
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People who don’t see their own nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are liars and fools.
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The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.
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Those who worship don’t know, and those who know don’t worship.
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Many roads lead to the Path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.
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Trying to find a buddha or enlightenment is like trying to grab space.
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All Buddhas preach emptiness. Why? Because they wish to crush the concrete ideas of the students. If a student even clings to an idea of emptiness, he betrays all Buddhas.
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As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you’ll never see that your own mind is the Buddha
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The essence of the Way is detachment.
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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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To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.
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Reality has no inside, outside, or middle part.
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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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