The awareness of mortals falls short. As long as they’re attached to appearances, they’re unaware that their minds are empty. And by mistakenly clinging to the appearance of things they lose the Way.
BODHIDHARMABut deluded people don’t realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside.
More Bodhidharma Quotes
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The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.
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Don’t hate life and death or love life and death. Keep your every thought free of delusion, and in life you’ll witness the beginning of nirvana, and in death you’ll experience the assurance of no rebirth.
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Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.
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Buddhas don’t practice nonsense.
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At every moment where language can’t go, that’s your mind.
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To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.
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Whoever realizes that the six senses aren’t real, that the five aggregates are fictions, that no such things can be located anywhere in the body, understands the language of Buddhas.
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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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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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Everything sacred, nothing sacred.
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The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.
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Unless you see your nature, all this talk about cause & effect is nonsense. Buddhas don’t practice nonsense.
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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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Externally keep yourself away from all relationships, and internally have no pantings in your heart; when your mind is like unto a straight-standing wall, you may enter into the Path.
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Neither gods nor men can foresee when an evil deed will bear its fruit.
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