Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.
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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The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.
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To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.
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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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But people of the deepest understanding look within, distracted by nothing. Since a clear mind is the Buddha, they attain the understanding of a Buddha without using the mind.
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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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And the Buddha is the person who’s free: free of plans, free of cares.
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Don’t hate life and death or love life and death. Keep your every thought free of delusion, and in life you’ll witness the beginning of nirvana, and in death you’ll experience the assurance of no rebirth.
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Trying to find a buddha or enlightenment is like trying to grab space.
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Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.
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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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At every moment where language can’t go, that’s your mind.
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Not creating delusions is enlightenment.
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The Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting.
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To have a body is to suffer. Does anyone with a body know peace? Those who understand this detach themselves from all that exists and stop imagining or seeking anything. The sutras say, “To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.” When you seek nothing, you’re on the Path.
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Reality has no inside, outside, or middle part.
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