As mortals, we’re ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.
BODHIDHARMAYou can’t know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.
More Bodhidharma Quotes
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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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Unless you see your nature, all this talk about cause & effect is nonsense. Buddhas don’t practice nonsense.
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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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To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.
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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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In order to see a fish you must watch the water
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Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher’s help.
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The Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting.
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The essence of the Way is detachment. And the goal of those who practice is freedom from appearances.
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But people of the deepest understanding look within, distracted by nothing. Since a clear mind is the Buddha, they attain the understanding of a Buddha without using the mind.
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Many roads lead to the Path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.
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Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.
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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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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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Someone who seeks the Way doesn’t look beyond himself.
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