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.
BODHIDHARMA
All know the way, but few actually walk it.
More Bodhidharma Quotes
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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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When you don’t understand, you depend on reality. When you do understand, reality depends on you.
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If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.
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To go from mortal to Buddha, you have to put an end to karma, nurture your awareness, and accept what life brings.
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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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Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher’s help.
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Buddhas don’t practice nonsense.
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But this mind isn’t somewhere outside the material body of the four elements. Without this mind we can’t move. The body has no awareness. Like a plant or a stone, the body has no nature. So how does it move? It’s the mind that moves.
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Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.
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Everything sacred, nothing sacred.
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You can’t know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.
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Still others commit all sorts of evil deeds, claiming karma doesn’t exist. They erroneously maintain that since everything is empty, committing evil isn’t wrong. Such persons fall into a hell of endless darkness with no hope of release. Those who are wise hold no such conception.
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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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