All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
BODHIDHARMAIf you use your mind to look for a Buddha, you won’t see the Buddha.
More Bodhidharma Quotes
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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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Buddhas don’t practice nonsense.
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Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.
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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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Without the mind there is no Buddha. Without the Buddha there’s no mind.
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The mind is the root from which all things grow. If you can understand the mind, everything else is included.
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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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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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To enter by reason means to realize the essence through instruction and to believe that all living things share the same true nature, which isn’t apparent because it’s shrouded by sensation and delusion.
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The Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting.
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To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.
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Not thinking about anything is zen. Once you know this, walking, standing, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is zen. To know that the mind is empty is to see the buddha…. Using the mind to reality is delusion. Not using the mind to look for reality is awareness. Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
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Reality has no inside, outside, or middle part.
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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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To see nothing is to perceive the Way, and to understand nothing is to know the Dharma, because seeing is neither seeing nor not seeing, and because understanding is neither understanding nor not understanding.
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Trying to find a buddha or enlightenment is like trying to grab space.
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When your mind doesn’t stir inside, the world doesn’t arise outside. When the world and the mind are both transparent, this is true vision. And such understanding is true understanding.
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Whoever realizes that the six senses aren’t real, that the five aggregates are fictions, that no such things can be located anywhere in the body, understands the language of Buddhas.
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Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.
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The mind is always present. You just don’t see it.
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As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you’ll never see that your own mind is the Buddha
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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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To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.
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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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Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.
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