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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.
BodhidharmaBodhidharma At every moment where language can’t go, that’s your mind.
BodhidharmaBodhidharma Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher’s help.
BodhidharmaBodhidharma If 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.
BodhidharmaBodhidharma As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you’ll never see that your own mind is the Buddha
BodhidharmaBodhidharma An Awakened person is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.
BodhidharmaBodhidharma When your mind doesn’t stir inside, the world doesn’t arise outside. When the world and the mind are both transparent, this is true vision. And such understanding is true understanding.
BodhidharmaBodhidharma All Buddhas preach emptiness. Why? Because they wish to crush the concrete ideas of the students. If a student even clings to an idea of emptiness, he betrays all Buddhas.
BodhidharmaBodhidharma Trying to find a buddha or enlightenment is like trying to grab space.
BodhidharmaBodhidharma Someone who seeks the Way doesn’t look beyond himself.
BodhidharmaBodhidharma Leaving behind the false, return to the true: make no discriminations between self and others. In contemplation, one’s mind should be stable and unmoving, like a wall.
BodhidharmaBodhidharma Unless you see your nature, all this talk about cause & effect is nonsense. Buddhas don’t practice nonsense.
BodhidharmaBodhidharma 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.
BodhidharmaBodhidharma The essence of the Way is detachment.
BodhidharmaBodhidharma To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.
BodhidharmaBodhidharma Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.
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Blissful comfort of pain and sorrow ravishes my rationality and drinks up my hope, for even thee whom I romanticize so deeply leaves me in a pool of intrusive thoughts telling me no matter what I say or do even the mirror despises you.
Zuzanna SzostakZuzanna Szostak What is meditation? Meditation is our conscious awareness of something vast and infinite within us. Meditation grants us Peace, Light and Bliss.
Sri ChinmoySri Chinmoy Follow your bliss. Find where it is and don’t be afraid to follow it.
Joseph ConradJoseph Conrad Everything is ecstasy inside. We just don’t know it because of our thinking-minds. But in our true blissful essence of mind it is known that everything is alright forever and forever and forever.
Jack KerouacJack Kerouac Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.
Emily BronteEmily Bronte Now a soft kiss – Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss.
John KeatsJohn Keats You have come from God, you are a spark of His Glory; you are a wave of that Ocean of Bliss; you will get peace only when you again merge in Him.
Sathya Sai BabaSathya Sai Baba Hurry to your goal together. That is full bliss when man and woman lie equally conquered.
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