Everything sacred, nothing sacred.
BODHIDHARMAWhen mortals are alive, they worry about death. When they’re full, they worry about hunger. Theirs is the Great Uncertainty. But sages don’t consider the past. And they don’t worry about the future. Nor do they cling to the present. And from moment to moment they follow the Way.
More Bodhidharma Quotes
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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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Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.
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Without the mind there is no Buddha. Without the Buddha there’s no mind.
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Unless you see your nature, all this talk about cause & effect is nonsense. Buddhas don’t practice nonsense.
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All know the way, but few actually walk it.
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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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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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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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The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.
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The Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting.
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Many roads lead to the Path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.
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As long as you’re enthralled by a lifeless form, you’re not free.
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To see nothing is to perceive the Way, and to understand nothing is to know the Dharma, because seeing is neither seeing nor not seeing, and because understanding is neither understanding nor not understanding.
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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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As mortals, we’re ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.
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