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.
BODHIDHARMAThe essence of the Way is detachment. And the goal of those who practice is freedom from appearances.
More Bodhidharma Quotes
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If you use your mind to study reality, you won’t understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you’ll understand both.
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An Awakened person is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.
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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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When you don’t understand, you depend on reality. When you do understand, reality depends on you.
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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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People of this world are deluded. They’re always longing for something – always, in a word, seeking.
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The ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They’re not the Way.
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But when you first embark on the Path, your awareness won’t be focused. You’re likely to see all sorts of strange, dreamlike scenes. But you shouldn’t doubt that all such scenes come from your own mind and nowhere else.
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Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.
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Our true buddha-nature has no shape. And the dust of affliction has no form.
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The mind is always present. You just don’t see it.
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The Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting. The Way has no form or sound. It’s subtle and hard to perceive. It’s like when you drink water: you know how hot or cold it is, but you can’t tell others.
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The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.
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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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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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