Life and death are important. Don’t suffer them in vain.
BODHIDHARMAThe Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.
More Bodhidharma Quotes
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Everything sacred, nothing sacred.
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As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you’ll never see that your own mind is the Buddha
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Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.
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But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.
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The mind’s capacity is limitless, and its manifestations are inexhaustible. Seeing forms with your eyes, hearing sounds with your ears, smelling odors with your nose, tasting flavors with your tongue, every movement or state is all your mind.
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Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.
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Buddhas don’t practice nonsense.
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The Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting.
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You can’t know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.
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One clings to life although there is nothing to be called life; another clings to death although there is nothing to be called death. In reality, there is nothing to be born; consequently, there is nothing to perish.
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People of this world are deluded. They’re always longing for something – always, in a word, seeking.
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Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.
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The essence of the Way is detachment.
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Worship means reverence and humility. It means revering your real self and humbling delusions. If you can wipe out evil desires and harbor good thoughts, even if nothing shows, it’s worship. Such form is its real form.
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According to the Sutras, evil deeds result in hardships and good deeds result in blessings.
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