The mind is always present. You just don’t see it.
BODHIDHARMAAll know the way, but few actually walk it.
More Bodhidharma Quotes
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To 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.
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To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.
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The essence of the Way is detachment. And the goal of those who practice is freedom from appearances.
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All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
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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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An Awakened person is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.
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The awareness of mortals falls short. As long as they’re attached to appearances, they’re unaware that their minds are empty. And by mistakenly clinging to the appearance of things they lose the Way.
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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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But deluded people don’t realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside.
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Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.
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At every moment where language can’t go, that’s your mind.
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As long as you’re enthralled by a lifeless form, you’re not free.
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You can’t know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.
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When you don’t understand, you depend on reality. When you do understand, reality depends on you.
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