To go from mortal to Buddha, you have to put an end to karma, nurture your awareness, and accept what life brings.
BODHIDHARMATo give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.
More Bodhidharma Quotes
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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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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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If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.
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Not creating delusions is enlightenment.
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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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Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher’s help.
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Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
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The awareness of mortals falls short. As long as they’re attached to appearances, they’re unaware that their minds are empty. And by mistakenly clinging to the appearance of things they lose the Way.
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Someone who seeks the Way doesn’t look beyond himself.
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To have a body is to suffer.
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Reality has no inside, outside, or middle part.
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An Awakened person is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.
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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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Everything good and bad comes from your own mind. To find something beyond the mind is impossible.
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The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.
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