Those who worship don’t know, and those who know don’t worship.
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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As long as you’re enthralled by a lifeless form, you’re not free.
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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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The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.
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All know the way, but few actually walk it.
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Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.
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To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.
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The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.
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Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen.
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Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will.
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Our true buddha-nature has no shape. And the dust of affliction has no form.
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And the Buddha is the person who’s free: free of plans, free of cares.
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Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.
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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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When we’re deluded there’s a world to escape. When we’re aware, there’s nothing to escape.
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Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.
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