Many roads lead to the Path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.
BODHIDHARMAAll know the way, but few actually walk it.
More Bodhidharma Quotes
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Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will.
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Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.
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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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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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You can’t know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.
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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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To have a body is to suffer.
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Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.
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Don’t hate life and death or love life and death. Keep your every thought free of delusion, and in life you’ll witness the beginning of nirvana, and in death you’ll experience the assurance of no rebirth.
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In order to see a fish you must watch the water
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When we’re deluded there’s a world to escape. When we’re aware, there’s nothing to escape.
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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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As long as you’re enthralled by a lifeless form, you’re not free.
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Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.
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At every moment where language can’t go, that’s your mind.
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