Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.
BODHIDHARMAExternally 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.
More Bodhidharma Quotes
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All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
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Those who worship don’t know, and those who know don’t worship.
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To 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.
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If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.
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To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.
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Regardless of what we do, our karma has no hold on us.
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Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.
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In order to see a fish you must watch the water
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This one life has no form and is empty by nature. If you become attached by any form, you should reject it. If you see an ego, a soul, a birth, or a death, reject them all.
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Once you stop clinging and let things be, you’ll be free, even of birth and death. You’ll transform everything.
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To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.
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Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.
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Someone who seeks the Way doesn’t look beyond himself.
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And as long as you’re subject to birth and death, you’ll never attain enlightenment.
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Whoever knows that the mind is a fiction and devoid of anything real knows that his own mind neither exists nor doesn’t exist.
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