When you don’t understand, you depend on reality. When you do understand, reality depends on you.
BODHIDHARMAAs mortals, we’re ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.
More Bodhidharma Quotes
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To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.
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To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.
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Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.
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An Awakened person is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.
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Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.
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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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And as long as you’re subject to birth and death, you’ll never attain enlightenment.
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To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.
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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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The mind is the root from which all things grow. If you can understand the mind, everything else is included.
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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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Trying to find a buddha or enlightenment is like trying to grab space.
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Reality has no inside, outside, or middle part.
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The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.
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Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.
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