An Awakened person is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.
BODHIDHARMAEverything sacred, nothing sacred.
More Bodhidharma Quotes
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As mortals, we’re ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.
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Once you stop clinging and let things be, you’ll be free, even of birth and death. You’ll transform everything.
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If you see your nature, you don’t need to read sutras or invoke buddhas. Erudition and knowledge are not only useless but also cloud your awareness. Doctrines are only for pointing to the mind. Once you see your mind, why pay attention to doctrines?
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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 don’t practice nonsense.
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Reality has no inside, outside, or middle part.
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And as long as you’re subject to birth and death, you’ll never attain enlightenment.
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Not creating delusions is enlightenment.
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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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Neither gods nor men can foresee when an evil deed will bear its fruit.
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All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
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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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Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen.
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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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