Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.
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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As long as you’re enthralled by a lifeless form, you’re not free.
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Reality has no inside, outside, or middle part.
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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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All know the way, but few actually walk it.
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According to the Sutras, evil deeds result in hardships and good deeds result in blessings.
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But deluded people don’t realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside.
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An Awakened person is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.
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Still others commit all sorts of evil deeds, claiming karma doesn’t exist. They erroneously maintain that since everything is empty, committing evil isn’t wrong. Such persons fall into a hell of endless darkness with no hope of release. Those who are wise hold no such conception.
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To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.
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Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.
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The ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They’re not the Way.
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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.
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Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.
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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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Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.
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