Someone who seeks the Way doesn’t look beyond himself.
BODHIDHARMATo seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.
More Bodhidharma Quotes
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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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People of this world are deluded. They’re always longing for something – always, in a word, seeking.
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Whoever knows that the mind is a fiction and devoid of anything real knows that his own mind neither exists nor doesn’t exist.
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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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Unless you see your nature, all this talk about cause & effect is nonsense. Buddhas don’t practice nonsense.
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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 have a body is to suffer. Does anyone with a body know peace? Those who understand this detach themselves from all that exists and stop imagining or seeking anything. The sutras say, “To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.” When you seek nothing, you’re on the Path.
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The essence of the Way is detachment. And the goal of those who practice is freedom from appearances.
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At every moment where language can’t go, that’s your mind.
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Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.
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One clings to life although there is nothing to be called life; another clings to death although there is nothing to be called death. In reality, there is nothing to be born; consequently, there is nothing to perish.
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Neither gods nor men can foresee when an evil deed will bear its fruit.
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Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.
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Externally keep yourself away from all relationships, and internally have no pantings in your heart; when your mind is like unto a straight-standing wall, you may enter into the Path.
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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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