Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.
BODHIDHARMAEverything good and bad comes from your own mind. To find something beyond the mind is impossible.
More Bodhidharma Quotes
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This one life has no form and is empty by nature. If you become attached by any form, you should reject it. If you see an ego, a soul, a birth, or a death, reject them all.
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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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If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.
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To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.
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Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will.
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When you don’t understand, you depend on reality. When you do understand, reality depends on you.
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Leaving behind the false, return to the true: make no discriminations between self and others. In contemplation, one’s mind should be stable and unmoving, like a wall.
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Many roads lead to the Path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.
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Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.
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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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When we’re deluded there’s a world to escape. When we’re aware, there’s nothing to escape.
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The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.
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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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Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
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And the Buddha is the person who’s free: free of plans, free of cares.
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