Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.
BODHIDHARMAIf 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?
More Bodhidharma Quotes
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But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.
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Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.
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Trying to find a buddha or enlightenment is like trying to grab space.
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The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.
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To enter by reason means to realize the essence through instruction and to believe that all living things share the same true nature, which isn’t apparent because it’s shrouded by sensation and delusion.
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An Awakened person is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.
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Neither gods nor men can foresee when an evil deed will bear its fruit.
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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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Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.
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And as long as you’re subject to birth and death, you’ll never attain enlightenment.
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Without the mind there is no Buddha. Without the Buddha there’s no mind.
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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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To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.
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If you use your mind to look for a Buddha, you won’t see the Buddha.
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Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.
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