Someone who seeks the Way doesn’t look beyond himself.
BODHIDHARMAThe mind is always present. You just don’t see it.
More Bodhidharma Quotes
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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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When we’re deluded there’s a world to escape. When we’re aware, there’s nothing to escape.
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To have a body is to suffer. Does anyone with a body know peace? Those who understand this detach themselves from all that exists and stop imagining or seeking anything. The sutras say, “To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.” When you seek nothing, you’re on the Path.
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To have a body is to suffer.
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If you see your nature, you don’t need to read sutras or invoke buddhas. Erudition and knowledge are not only useless but also cloud your awareness. Doctrines are only for pointing to the mind. Once you see your mind, why pay attention to doctrines?
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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 ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They’re not the Way.
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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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People of this world are deluded. They’re always longing for something, always, in a word, seeking. But the wise wake up. They choose reason over custom. They fix their minds on the sublime and let their bodies change with the seasons.
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As mortals, we’re ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.
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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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The true Way is sublime. It can’t be expressed in language. Of what use are scriptures? But someone who sees his own nature finds the Way, even if he can’t read a word.
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At every moment where language can’t go, that’s your mind.
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In order to see a fish you must watch the water
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All know the way, but few actually walk it.
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