To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.
BODHIDHARMAI do not need any writing, since I transmit teaching beyond words and ideas.
More Bodhidharma Quotes
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Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.
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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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Someone who seeks the Way doesn’t look beyond himself.
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Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.
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All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
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Reality has no inside, outside, or middle part.
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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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To see nothing is to perceive the Way, and to understand nothing is to know the Dharma, because seeing is neither seeing nor not seeing, and because understanding is neither understanding nor not understanding.
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The Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting.
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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.
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But deluded people don’t realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside.
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Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.
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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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Unless you see your nature, all this talk about cause & effect is nonsense. Buddhas don’t practice nonsense.
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Without the mind there is no Buddha. Without the Buddha there’s no mind.
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