Externally keep yourself away from all relationships, and internally have no pantings in your heart; when your mind is like unto a straight-standing wall, you may enter into the Path.
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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Not creating delusions is enlightenment.
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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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Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.
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The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.
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Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.
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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 do not need any writing, since I transmit teaching beyond words and ideas.
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To have a body is to suffer. Does anyone with a body know peace? Those who understand this detach themselves from all that exists and stop imagining or seeking anything. The sutras say, “To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.” When you seek nothing, you’re on the Path.
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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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Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.
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But people of the deepest understanding look within, distracted by nothing. Since a clear mind is the Buddha, they attain the understanding of a Buddha without using the mind.
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Leaving behind the false, return to the true: make no discriminations between self and others. In contemplation, one’s mind should be stable and unmoving, like a wall.
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To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.
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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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Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.
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