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.
BODHIDHARMAWorship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.
More Bodhidharma Quotes
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The essence of the Way is detachment. And the goal of those who practice is freedom from appearances.
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Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen.
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The Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting.
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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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To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.
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But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.
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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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Buddhas don’t practice nonsense.
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Those who worship don’t know, and those who know don’t worship.
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Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will.
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Our true buddha-nature has no shape. And the dust of affliction has no form.
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An Awakened person is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.
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You can’t know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.
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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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