The mind is the root from which all things grow. If you can understand the mind, everything else is included.
BODHIDHARMA
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.
More Bodhidharma Quotes
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The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.
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Without the mind there is no Buddha. Without the Buddha there’s no mind.
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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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Buddhas don’t practice nonsense.
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The ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They’re not the Way.
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An Awakened person is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.
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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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Everything sacred, nothing sacred.
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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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If we should be blessed by some great reward, such as fame or fortune, it’s the fruit of a seed planted by us in the past.
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Still others commit all sorts of evil deeds, claiming karma doesn’t exist. They erroneously maintain that since everything is empty, committing evil isn’t wrong. Such persons fall into a hell of endless darkness with no hope of release. Those who are wise hold no such conception.
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All Buddhas preach emptiness. Why? Because they wish to crush the concrete ideas of the students. If a student even clings to an idea of emptiness, he betrays all Buddhas.
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Whoever knows that the mind is a fiction and devoid of anything real knows that his own mind neither exists nor doesn’t exist.
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To have a body is to suffer.
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Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.
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