I do not need any writing, since I transmit teaching beyond words and ideas.
BODHIDHARMAAs long as you’re enthralled by a lifeless form, you’re not free.
More Bodhidharma Quotes
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You can’t know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.
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Not creating delusions is enlightenment.
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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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Many roads lead to the Path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.
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Someone who seeks the Way doesn’t look beyond himself.
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All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
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The mind is the root from which all things grow. If you can understand the mind, everything else is included.
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Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.
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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 know the way, but few actually walk it.
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To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.
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At every moment where language can’t go, that’s your mind.
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As mortals, we’re ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.
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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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