But people of the deepest understanding look within, distracted by nothing. Since a clear mind is the Buddha, they attain the understanding of a Buddha without using the mind.
BODHIDHARMABut people of the deepest understanding look within, distracted by nothing. Since a clear mind is the Buddha, they attain the understanding of a Buddha without using the mind.
BODHIDHARMAThe mind is always present. You just don’t see it.
BODHIDHARMAIn order to see a fish you must watch the water
BODHIDHARMAAnd the Buddha is the person who’s free: free of plans, free of cares.
BODHIDHARMADon’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.
BODHIDHARMABut deluded people don’t realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside.
BODHIDHARMAAnd as long as you’re subject to birth and death, you’ll never attain enlightenment.
BODHIDHARMAWhoever realizes that the six senses aren’t real, that the five aggregates are fictions, that no such things can be located anywhere in the body, understands the language of Buddhas.
BODHIDHARMAIf you see your nature, you don’t need to read sutras or invoke buddhas. Erudition and knowledge are not only useless but also cloud your awareness. Doctrines are only for pointing to the mind. Once you see your mind, why pay attention to doctrines?
BODHIDHARMAWhen 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.
BODHIDHARMAThe ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They’re not the Way.
BODHIDHARMAMany roads lead to the Path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.
BODHIDHARMATo give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.
BODHIDHARMABuddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.
BODHIDHARMAAs long as you’re enthralled by a lifeless form, you’re not free.
BODHIDHARMAEverything good and bad comes from your own mind. To find something beyond the mind is impossible.
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