All Buddhas preach emptiness. Why? Because they wish to crush the concrete ideas of the students. If a student even clings to an idea of emptiness, he betrays all Buddhas.
BODHIDHARMAYou can’t know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.
More Bodhidharma Quotes
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Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.
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This one life has no form and is empty by nature. If you become attached by any form, you should reject it. If you see an ego, a soul, a birth, or a death, reject them all.
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Everything good and bad comes from your own mind. To find something beyond the mind is impossible.
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Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
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Regardless of what we do, our karma has no hold on us.
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Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.
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And as long as you’re subject to birth and death, you’ll never attain enlightenment.
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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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In order to see a fish you must watch the water
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Trying to find a buddha or enlightenment is like trying to grab space.
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If you use your mind to look for a Buddha, you won’t see the Buddha.
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Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.
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The mind is always present. You just don’t see it.
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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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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.
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