Life and death are important. Don’t suffer them in vain.
BODHIDHARMAAs long as you’re enthralled by a lifeless form, you’re not free.
More Bodhidharma Quotes
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At every moment where language can’t go, that’s your mind.
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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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The ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They’re not the Way.
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Externally keep yourself away from all relationships, and internally have no pantings in your heart; when your mind is like unto a straight-standing wall, you may enter into the Path.
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The mind’s capacity is limitless, and its manifestations are inexhaustible. Seeing forms with your eyes, hearing sounds with your ears, smelling odors with your nose, tasting flavors with your tongue, every movement or state is all your mind.
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Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.
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Not creating delusions is enlightenment.
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Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen.
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The Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting. The Way has no form or sound. It’s subtle and hard to perceive. It’s like when you drink water: you know how hot or cold it is, but you can’t tell others.
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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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And the Buddha is the person who’s free: free of plans, free of cares.
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I do not need any writing, since I transmit teaching beyond words and ideas.
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The awareness of mortals falls short. As long as they’re attached to appearances, they’re unaware that their minds are empty. And by mistakenly clinging to the appearance of things they lose the Way.
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Reality has no inside, outside, or middle part.
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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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