Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
BODHIDHARMATo seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.
More Bodhidharma Quotes
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If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.
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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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As mortals, we’re ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.
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Regardless of what we do, our karma has no hold on us.
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Buddhas don’t practice nonsense.
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In order to see a fish you must watch the water
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The mind is the root from which all things grow. If you can understand the mind, everything else is included.
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Trying to find a buddha or enlightenment is like trying to grab space.
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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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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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Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.
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As long as you’re enthralled by a lifeless form, you’re not free.
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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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But deluded people don’t realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside.
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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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