Worship means reverence and humility. It means revering your real self and humbling delusions. If you can wipe out evil desires and harbor good thoughts, even if nothing shows, it’s worship. Such form is its real form.
BODHIDHARMAWorship means reverence and humility. It means revering your real self and humbling delusions. If you can wipe out evil desires and harbor good thoughts, even if nothing shows, it’s worship. Such form is its real form.
BODHIDHARMAThe mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.
BODHIDHARMATo 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.
BODHIDHARMAPeople who don’t see their own nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are liars and fools.
BODHIDHARMAThe ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.
BODHIDHARMAExternally 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.
BODHIDHARMAThe Buddha is your real body, your original mind.
BODHIDHARMATo 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.
BODHIDHARMABut 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.
BODHIDHARMAOnce you stop clinging and let things be, you’ll be free, even of birth and death. You’ll transform everything.
BODHIDHARMATo find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.
BODHIDHARMABut while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.
BODHIDHARMAThe mind is the root from which all things grow. If you can understand the mind, everything else is included.
BODHIDHARMATo seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.
BODHIDHARMAAt every moment where language can’t go, that’s your mind.
BODHIDHARMAAll know the way, but few actually walk it.
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