The essence of the Way is detachment.
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More Bodhidharma Quotes
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Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.
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But when you first embark on the Path, your awareness won’t be focused. You’re likely to see all sorts of strange, dreamlike scenes. But you shouldn’t doubt that all such scenes come from your own mind and nowhere else.
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Many roads lead to the Path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.
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People of this world are deluded. They’re always longing for something, always, in a word, seeking. But the wise wake up. They choose reason over custom. They fix their minds on the sublime and let their bodies change with the seasons.
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The mind is always present. You just don’t see it.
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Someone who seeks the Way doesn’t look beyond himself.
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Don’t hate life and death or love life and death. Keep your every thought free of delusion, and in life you’ll witness the beginning of nirvana, and in death you’ll experience the assurance of no rebirth.
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Buddhas don’t practice nonsense.
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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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But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.
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To go from mortal to Buddha, you have to put an end to karma, nurture your awareness, and accept what life brings.
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Not creating delusions is enlightenment.
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Neither gods nor men can foresee when an evil deed will bear its fruit.
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Everything sacred, nothing sacred.
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Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher’s help.
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