At every moment where language can’t go, that’s your mind.
BODHIDHARMAIf you use your mind to look for a Buddha, you won’t see the Buddha.
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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I never lost or fail, not yet conquered. If I fall seven times, I get up eight
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Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen.
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As long as you’re enthralled by a lifeless form, you’re not free.
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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.
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Life and death are important. Don’t suffer them in vain.
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If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.
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Still others commit all sorts of evil deeds, claiming karma doesn’t exist. They erroneously maintain that since everything is empty, committing evil isn’t wrong. Such persons fall into a hell of endless darkness with no hope of release. Those who are wise hold no such conception.
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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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The Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting.
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You can’t know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.
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Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.
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But deluded people don’t realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside.
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Our true buddha-nature has no shape. And the dust of affliction has no form.
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I do not need any writing, since I transmit teaching beyond words and ideas.
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