But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.
BODHIDHARMAFreeing oneself from words is liberation.
More Bodhidharma Quotes
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To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.
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Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.
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And as long as you’re subject to birth and death, you’ll never attain enlightenment.
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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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Unless you see your nature, all this talk about cause & effect is nonsense. Buddhas don’t practice nonsense.
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Those who worship don’t know, and those who know don’t worship.
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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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The mind is always present. You just don’t see it.
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All Buddhas preach emptiness. Why? Because they wish to crush the concrete ideas of the students. If a student even clings to an idea of emptiness, he betrays all Buddhas.
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Everything good and bad comes from your own mind. To find something beyond the mind is impossible.
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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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The essence of the Way is detachment.
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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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In order to see a fish you must watch the water
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Our true buddha-nature has no shape. And the dust of affliction has no form.
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