An Awakened person is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.
BODHIDHARMAAs mortals, we’re ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.
More Bodhidharma Quotes
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The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.
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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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The 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.
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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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At every moment where language can’t go, that’s your mind.
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The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.
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Worship means reverence and humility. It means revering your real self and humbling delusions. If you can wipe out evil desires and harbor good thoughts, even if nothing shows, it’s worship. Such form is its real form.
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Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.
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As long as you’re enthralled by a lifeless form, you’re not free.
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The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.
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If you use your mind to look for a Buddha, you won’t see the Buddha.
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People who don’t see their own nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are liars and fools.
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Those who worship don’t know, and those who know don’t worship.
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Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.
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Our true buddha-nature has no shape. And the dust of affliction has no form.
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