The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.
BODHIDHARMAAll know the way, but few actually walk it.
More Bodhidharma Quotes
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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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The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.
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One clings to life although there is nothing to be called life; another clings to death although there is nothing to be called death. In reality, there is nothing to be born; consequently, there is nothing to perish.
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Once you stop clinging and let things be, you’ll be free, even of birth and death. You’ll transform everything.
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Someone who seeks the Way doesn’t look beyond himself.
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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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Not suffering another existence is reaching 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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To have a body is to suffer.
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You can’t know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.
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Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.
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Our true buddha-nature has no shape. And the dust of affliction has no form.
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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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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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When your mind doesn’t stir inside, the world doesn’t arise outside. When the world and the mind are both transparent, this is true vision. And such understanding is true understanding.
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