Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.
BODHIDHARMANot suffering another existence is reaching the Way.
More Bodhidharma Quotes
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Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.
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You can’t know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.
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To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.
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Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.
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Neither gods nor men can foresee when an evil deed will bear its fruit.
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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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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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But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.
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The ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They’re not the Way.
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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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Someone who seeks the Way doesn’t look beyond himself.
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Our true buddha-nature has no shape. And the dust of affliction has no form.
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Whoever realizes that the six senses aren’t real, that the five aggregates are fictions, that no such things can be located anywhere in the body, understands the language of Buddhas.
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All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
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The mind is the root from which all things grow. If you can understand the mind, everything else is included.
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