In order to see a fish you must watch the water
BODHIDHARMAThe Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.
More Bodhidharma Quotes
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Someone who seeks the Way doesn’t look beyond himself.
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I do not need any writing, since I transmit teaching beyond words and ideas.
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You can’t know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.
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Everything sacred, nothing sacred.
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If you see your nature, you don’t need to read sutras or invoke buddhas. Erudition and knowledge are not only useless but also cloud your awareness. Doctrines are only for pointing to the mind. Once you see your mind, why pay attention to doctrines?
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Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.
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To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.
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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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The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.
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Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.
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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.
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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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Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.
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To have a body is to suffer.
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