You can’t know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.
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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Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.
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The mind is always present. You just don’t see it.
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To enter by reason means to realize the essence through instruction and to believe that all living things share the same true nature, which isn’t apparent because it’s shrouded by sensation and delusion.
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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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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.
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When we’re deluded there’s a world to escape. When we’re aware, there’s nothing to escape.
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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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As long as you’re enthralled by a lifeless form, you’re not free.
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Many roads lead to the Path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.
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And as long as you’re subject to birth and death, you’ll never attain enlightenment.
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Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.
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The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.
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The ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They’re not the Way.
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Everything sacred, nothing sacred.
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The Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting.
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