To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.
BODHIDHARMAFreeing oneself from words is liberation.
More Bodhidharma Quotes
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Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher’s help.
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An Awakened person is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.
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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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In order to see a fish you must watch the water
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Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will.
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The mind is always present. You just don’t see it.
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Trying to find a buddha or enlightenment is like trying to grab space.
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Not creating delusions is enlightenment.
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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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If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.
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To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.
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Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.
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As long as you’re enthralled by a lifeless form, you’re not free.
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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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The essence of the Way is detachment. And the goal of those who practice is freedom from appearances.
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