Those who worship don’t know, and those who know don’t worship.
BODHIDHARMAAll the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
More Bodhidharma Quotes
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To enter by reason means to realize the essence through instruction and to believe that all living things share the same true nature, which isn’t apparent because it’s shrouded by sensation and delusion.
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To have a body is to suffer.
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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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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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If you use your mind to look for a Buddha, you won’t see the Buddha.
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In order to see a fish you must watch the water
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If we should be blessed by some great reward, such as fame or fortune, it’s the fruit of a seed planted by us in the past.
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Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.
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All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
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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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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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Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.
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As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you’ll never see that your own mind is the Buddha
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Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.
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At every moment where language can’t go, that’s your mind.
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