But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.
BODHIDHARMAThe mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.
More Bodhidharma Quotes
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If you use your mind to study reality, you won’t understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you’ll understand both.
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According to the Sutras, evil deeds result in hardships and good deeds result in blessings.
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Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.
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The essence of the Way is detachment.
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As long as you’re enthralled by a lifeless form, you’re not free.
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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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All know the way, but few actually walk it.
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And the Buddha is the person who’s free: free of plans, free of cares.
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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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Our true buddha-nature has no shape. And the dust of affliction has no form.
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In order to see a fish you must watch the water
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Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.
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The mind’s capacity is limitless, and its manifestations are inexhaustible. Seeing forms with your eyes, hearing sounds with your ears, smelling odors with your nose, tasting flavors with your tongue, every movement or state is all your mind.
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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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