But deluded people don’t realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside.
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Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.
More Bodhidharma Quotes
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But deluded people don’t realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside.
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All Buddhas preach emptiness. Why? Because they wish to crush the concrete ideas of the students. If a student even clings to an idea of emptiness, he betrays all Buddhas.
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When mortals are alive, they worry about death. When they’re full, they worry about hunger. Theirs is the Great Uncertainty. But sages don’t consider the past. And they don’t worry about the future. Nor do they cling to the present. And from moment to moment they follow the Way.
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Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
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The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.
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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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If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.
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But people of the deepest understanding look within, distracted by nothing. Since a clear mind is the Buddha, they attain the understanding of a Buddha without using the mind.
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The mind is always present. You just don’t see it.
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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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Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.
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Unless you see your nature, all this talk about cause & effect is nonsense. Buddhas don’t practice nonsense.
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