Life and death are important. Don’t suffer them in vain.
BODHIDHARMANot suffering another existence is reaching the Way.
More Bodhidharma Quotes
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The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.
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The Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting. The Way has no form or sound. It’s subtle and hard to perceive. It’s like when you drink water: you know how hot or cold it is, but you can’t tell others.
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I never lost or fail, not yet conquered. If I fall seven times, I get up eight
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The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.
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The Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting.
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To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.
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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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The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.
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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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Trying to find a buddha or enlightenment is like trying to grab space.
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Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.
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According to the Sutras, evil deeds result in hardships and good deeds result in blessings.
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But this mind isn’t somewhere outside the material body of the four elements. Without this mind we can’t move. The body has no awareness. Like a plant or a stone, the body has no nature. So how does it move? It’s the mind that moves.
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The ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They’re not the Way.
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All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
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