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.
BODHIDHARMABut 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.
BODHIDHARMAThe awareness of mortals falls short. As long as they’re attached to appearances, they’re unaware that their minds are empty. And by mistakenly clinging to the appearance of things they lose the Way.
BODHIDHARMAAn Awakened person is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.
BODHIDHARMAIf you use your mind to study reality, you won’t understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you’ll understand both.
BODHIDHARMAPeople of this world are deluded. They’re always longing for something – always, in a word, seeking.
BODHIDHARMAAnd the Buddha is the person who’s free: free of plans, free of cares.
BODHIDHARMAIf you use your mind to look for a Buddha, you won’t see the Buddha.
BODHIDHARMABut people of the deepest understanding look within, distracted by nothing. Since a clear mind is the Buddha, they attain the understanding of a Buddha without using the mind.
BODHIDHARMAThe Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting.
BODHIDHARMATo find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.
BODHIDHARMATo go from mortal to Buddha, you have to put an end to karma, nurture your awareness, and accept what life brings.
BODHIDHARMANot 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.
BODHIDHARMAThe Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.
BODHIDHARMAOur nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.
BODHIDHARMAFreeing oneself from words is liberation.
BODHIDHARMANot engaging in ignorance is wisdom.
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