But this mind isn’t somewhere outside the material body of the four elements. Without this mind we can’t move. The body has no awareness. Like a plant or a stone, the body has no nature. So how does it move? It’s the mind that moves.
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.
More Bodhidharma Quotes
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At every moment where language can’t go, that’s your mind.
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Someone who seeks the Way doesn’t look beyond himself.
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To see nothing is to perceive the Way, and to understand nothing is to know the Dharma, because seeing is neither seeing nor not seeing, and because understanding is neither understanding nor not understanding.
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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.
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To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.
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The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.
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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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The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.
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The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.
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All know the way, but few actually walk it.
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I do not need any writing, since I transmit teaching beyond words and ideas.
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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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Everything good and bad comes from your own mind. To find something beyond the mind is impossible.
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I never lost or fail, not yet conquered. If I fall seven times, I get up eight
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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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