But when you first embark on the Path, your awareness won’t be focused. You’re likely to see all sorts of strange, dreamlike scenes. But you shouldn’t doubt that all such scenes come from your own mind and nowhere else.
BODHIDHARMATo give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.
More Bodhidharma Quotes
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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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But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.
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At every moment where language can’t go, that’s your mind.
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Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher’s help.
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When mortals are alive, they worry about death. When they’re full, they worry about hunger. Theirs is the Great Uncertainty. But sages don’t consider the past. And they don’t worry about the future. Nor do they cling to the present. And from moment to moment they follow the Way.
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Everything sacred, nothing sacred.
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Many roads lead to the Path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.
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You can’t know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.
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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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Someone who seeks the Way doesn’t look beyond himself.
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Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.
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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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Without the mind there is no Buddha. Without the Buddha there’s no mind.
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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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Regardless of what we do, our karma has no hold on us.
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