Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen.
BODHIDHARMANot thinking about anything is zen. Once you know this, walking, standing, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is zen. To know that the mind is empty is to see the buddha…. Using the mind to reality is delusion. Not using the mind to look for reality is awareness. Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
More Bodhidharma Quotes
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Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.
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At every moment where language can’t go, that’s your mind.
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The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.
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Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.
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The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.
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An Awakened person is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.
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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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Someone who seeks the Way doesn’t look beyond himself.
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If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.
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Life and death are important. Don’t suffer them in vain.
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All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
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The awareness of mortals falls short. As long as they’re attached to appearances, they’re unaware that their minds are empty. And by mistakenly clinging to the appearance of things they lose the Way.
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If 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.
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The mind is the root from which all things grow. If you can understand the mind, everything else is included.
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The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.
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