And as long as you’re subject to birth and death, you’ll never attain enlightenment.
BODHIDHARMAYou can’t know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.
More Bodhidharma Quotes
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To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.
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Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.
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The essence of the Way is detachment.
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Reality has no inside, outside, or middle part.
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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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Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher’s help.
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Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.
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As long as you’re enthralled by a lifeless form, you’re not free.
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The mind’s capacity is limitless, and its manifestations are inexhaustible. Seeing forms with your eyes, hearing sounds with your ears, smelling odors with your nose, tasting flavors with your tongue, every movement or state is all your mind.
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Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will.
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To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.
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Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.
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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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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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All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
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