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.
BODHIDHARMAPeople of this world are deluded. They’re always longing for something – always, in a word, seeking.
More Bodhidharma Quotes
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An Awakened person is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.
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Worship means reverence and humility. It means revering your real self and humbling delusions. If you can wipe out evil desires and harbor good thoughts, even if nothing shows, it’s worship. Such form is its real form.
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As long as you’re enthralled by a lifeless form, you’re not free.
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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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To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.
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To have a body is to suffer.
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Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher’s help.
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The Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting.
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If you use your mind to look for a Buddha, you won’t see the Buddha.
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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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Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.
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Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.
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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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Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.
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To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.
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