I never lost or fail, not yet conquered. If I fall seven times, I get up eight
BODHIDHARMAAll know the way, but few actually walk it.
More Bodhidharma Quotes
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Not creating delusions is enlightenment.
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The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.
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Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher’s help.
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The mind’s capacity is limitless, and its manifestations are inexhaustible. Seeing forms with your eyes, hearing sounds with your ears, smelling odors with your nose, tasting flavors with your tongue, every movement or state is all your mind.
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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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To have a body is to suffer.
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If you use your mind to look for a Buddha, you won’t see the Buddha.
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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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The mind is always present. You just don’t see it.
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The ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They’re not the Way.
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Reality has no inside, outside, or middle part.
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Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.
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Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.
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To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.
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But when you first embark on the Path, your awareness won’t be focused. You’re likely to see all sorts of strange, dreamlike scenes. But you shouldn’t doubt that all such scenes come from your own mind and nowhere else.
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