Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.
BODHIDHARMABuddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.
More Bodhidharma Quotes
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Once you stop clinging and let things be, you’ll be free, even of birth and death. You’ll transform everything.
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Many roads lead to the Path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.
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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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All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
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Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.
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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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To have a body is to suffer.
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Leaving behind the false, return to the true: make no discriminations between self and others. In contemplation, one’s mind should be stable and unmoving, like a wall.
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The Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting.
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People who don’t see their own nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are liars and fools.
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Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher’s help.
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Whoever 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.
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The essence of the Way is detachment.
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Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.
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The true Way is sublime. It can’t be expressed in language. Of what use are scriptures? But someone who sees his own nature finds the Way, even if he can’t read a word.
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