Reality has no inside, outside, or middle part.
BODHIDHARMAEverything good and bad comes from your own mind. To find something beyond the mind is impossible.
More Bodhidharma Quotes
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Many roads lead to the Path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.
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Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.
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In order to see a fish you must watch the water
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Regardless of what we do, our karma has no hold on us.
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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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One clings to life although there is nothing to be called life; another clings to death although there is nothing to be called death. In reality, there is nothing to be born; consequently, there is nothing to perish.
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Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.
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Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will.
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The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.
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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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Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.
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Externally keep yourself away from all relationships, and internally have no pantings in your heart; when your mind is like unto a straight-standing wall, you may enter into the Path.
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The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.
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The mind’s capacity is limitless, and its manifestations are inexhaustible. Seeing forms with your eyes, hearing sounds with your ears, smelling odors with your nose, tasting flavors with your tongue, every movement or state is all your mind.
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As mortals, we’re ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.
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