If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.
BODHIDHARMAThe Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.
More Bodhidharma Quotes
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Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.
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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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The essence of the Way is detachment.
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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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Our true buddha-nature has no shape. And the dust of affliction has no form.
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Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.
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Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will.
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If you use your mind to look for a Buddha, you won’t see the Buddha.
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The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.
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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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Trying to find a buddha or enlightenment is like trying to grab space.
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I never lost or fail, not yet conquered. If I fall seven times, I get up eight
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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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I do not need any writing, since I transmit teaching beyond words and ideas.
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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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