The Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting. The Way has no form or sound. It’s subtle and hard to perceive. It’s like when you drink water: you know how hot or cold it is, but you can’t tell others.
BODHIDHARMAPeople who don’t see their own nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are liars and fools.
More Bodhidharma Quotes
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The ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They’re not the Way.
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Those who worship don’t know, and those who know don’t worship.
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Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.
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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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I do not need any writing, since I transmit teaching beyond words and ideas.
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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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Regardless of what we do, our karma has no hold on us.
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As long as you’re enthralled by a lifeless form, you’re not free.
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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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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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The essence of the Way is detachment. And the goal of those who practice is freedom from appearances.
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Someone who seeks the Way doesn’t look beyond himself.
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Everything sacred, nothing sacred.
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Worship means reverence and humility. It means revering your real self and humbling delusions. If you can wipe out evil desires and harbor good thoughts, even if nothing shows, it’s worship. Such form is its real form.
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Neither gods nor men can foresee when an evil deed will bear its fruit.
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