Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.
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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Unless you see your nature, all this talk about cause & effect is nonsense. Buddhas don’t practice nonsense.
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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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At every moment where language can’t go, that’s your mind.
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People of this world are deluded. They’re always longing for something – always, in a word, seeking.
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Without the mind there is no Buddha. Without the Buddha there’s no mind.
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According to the Sutras, evil deeds result in hardships and good deeds result in blessings.
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Our true buddha-nature has no shape. And the dust of affliction has no form.
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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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As mortals, we’re ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.
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If you use your mind to study reality, you won’t understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you’ll understand both.
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The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.
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The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.
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Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.
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Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.
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Life and death are important. Don’t suffer them in vain.
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