Unless you see your nature, all this talk about cause & effect is nonsense. Buddhas don’t practice nonsense.
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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The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.
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Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen.
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Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.
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Everything sacred, nothing sacred.
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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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Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.
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Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.
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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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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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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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Buddhas don’t practice nonsense.
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When you don’t understand, you depend on reality. When you do understand, reality depends on you.
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Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.
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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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Everything good and bad comes from your own mind. To find something beyond the mind is impossible.
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