The Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting.
BODHIDHARMAThe mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.
More Bodhidharma Quotes
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Trying to find a buddha or enlightenment is like trying to grab space.
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The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.
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Everything good and bad comes from your own mind. To find something beyond the mind is impossible.
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Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.
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Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
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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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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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Leaving behind the false, return to the true: make no discriminations between self and others. In contemplation, one’s mind should be stable and unmoving, like a wall.
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Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.
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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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At every moment where language can’t go, that’s your mind.
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Buddhas don’t practice nonsense.
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When your mind doesn’t stir inside, the world doesn’t arise outside. When the world and the mind are both transparent, this is true vision. And such understanding is true understanding.
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To go from mortal to Buddha, you have to put an end to karma, nurture your awareness, and accept what life brings.
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Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.
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