When we’re deluded there’s a world to escape. When we’re aware, there’s nothing to escape.
BODHIDHARMAWhen we’re deluded there’s a world to escape. When we’re aware, there’s nothing to escape.
BODHIDHARMAThose who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.
BODHIDHARMATo have a body is to suffer. Does anyone with a body know peace? Those who understand this detach themselves from all that exists and stop imagining or seeking anything. The sutras say, “To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.” When you seek nothing, you’re on the Path.
BODHIDHARMAYou can’t know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.
BODHIDHARMAThe Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.
BODHIDHARMAReality has no inside, outside, or middle part.
BODHIDHARMABuddhas don’t practice nonsense.
BODHIDHARMAMany roads lead to the Path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.
BODHIDHARMAPeople of this world are deluded. They’re always longing for something, always, in a word, seeking. But the wise wake up. They choose reason over custom. They fix their minds on the sublime and let their bodies change with the seasons.
BODHIDHARMAWhoever realizes that the six senses aren’t real, that the five aggregates are fictions, that no such things can be located anywhere in the body, understands the language of Buddhas.
BODHIDHARMAEverything good and bad comes from your own mind. To find something beyond the mind is impossible.
BODHIDHARMAIf your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.
BODHIDHARMASomeone who seeks the Way doesn’t look beyond himself.
BODHIDHARMANeither gods nor men can foresee when an evil deed will bear its fruit.
BODHIDHARMARegardless of what we do, our karma has no hold on us.
BODHIDHARMAThe ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.
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