Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.
BODHIDHARMAIf we should be blessed by some great reward, such as fame or fortune, it’s the fruit of a seed planted by us in the past.
More Bodhidharma Quotes
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To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.
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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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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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An Awakened person is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.
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Trying to find a buddha or enlightenment is like trying to grab space.
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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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The mind is the root from which all things grow. If you can understand the mind, everything else is included.
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The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.
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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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Someone who seeks the Way doesn’t look beyond himself.
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All know the way, but few actually walk it.
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Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
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All Buddhas preach emptiness. Why? Because they wish to crush the concrete ideas of the students. If a student even clings to an idea of emptiness, he betrays all Buddhas.
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Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.
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Life and death are important. Don’t suffer them in vain.
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