Someone who seeks the Way doesn’t look beyond himself.
BODHIDHARMATo 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.
More Bodhidharma Quotes
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Buddhas don’t practice nonsense.
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To have a body is to suffer.
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To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.
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As long as you’re enthralled by a lifeless form, you’re not free.
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Not creating delusions is enlightenment.
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To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.
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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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In order to see a fish you must watch the water
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Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.
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If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.
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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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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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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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As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you’ll never see that your own mind is the Buddha
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But deluded people don’t realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside.
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