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.
BODHIDHARMAWorship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.
More Bodhidharma Quotes
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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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People of this world are deluded. They’re always longing for something – always, in a word, seeking.
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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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Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
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Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.
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The awareness of mortals falls short. As long as they’re attached to appearances, they’re unaware that their minds are empty. And by mistakenly clinging to the appearance of things they lose the Way.
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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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People who don’t see their own nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are liars and fools.
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Someone who seeks the Way doesn’t look beyond himself.
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If we should be blessed by some great reward, such as fame or fortune, it’s the fruit of a seed planted by us in the past.
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Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.
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Those who worship don’t know, and those who know don’t worship.
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If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.
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Buddhas don’t practice nonsense.
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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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