All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
BODHIDHARMAEverything sacred, nothing sacred.
More Bodhidharma Quotes
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Not thinking about anything is zen. Once you know this, walking, standing, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is zen. To know that the mind is empty is to see the buddha…. Using the mind to reality is delusion. Not using the mind to look for reality is awareness. Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
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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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Regardless of what we do, our karma has no hold on us.
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You can’t know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.
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Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.
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Our true buddha-nature has no shape. And the dust of affliction has no form.
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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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Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.
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I do not need any writing, since I transmit teaching beyond words and ideas.
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If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.
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All know the way, but few actually walk it.
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Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.
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And the Buddha is the person who’s free: free of plans, free of cares.
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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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