If you use your mind to look for a Buddha, you won’t see the Buddha.
BODHIDHARMAAll know the way, but few actually walk it.
More Bodhidharma Quotes
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As long as you’re enthralled by a lifeless form, you’re not free.
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Those who worship don’t know, and those who know don’t worship.
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All know the way, but few actually walk it.
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At every moment where language can’t go, that’s your mind.
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The essence of the Way is detachment.
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To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.
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This one life has no form and is empty by nature. If you become attached by any form, you should reject it. If you see an ego, a soul, a birth, or a death, reject them all.
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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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Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher’s help.
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If you see your nature, you don’t need to read sutras or invoke buddhas. Erudition and knowledge are not only useless but also cloud your awareness. Doctrines are only for pointing to the mind. Once you see your mind, why pay attention to doctrines?
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Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.
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Without the mind there is no Buddha. Without the Buddha there’s no mind.
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If you use your mind to study reality, you won’t understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you’ll understand both.
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Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
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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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