Once you stop clinging and let things be, you’ll be free, even of birth and death. You’ll transform everything.
BODHIDHARMADelusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.
More Bodhidharma Quotes
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Still others commit all sorts of evil deeds, claiming karma doesn’t exist. They erroneously maintain that since everything is empty, committing evil isn’t wrong. Such persons fall into a hell of endless darkness with no hope of release. Those who are wise hold no such conception.
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Trying to find a buddha or enlightenment is like trying to grab space.
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All know the way, but few actually walk it.
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Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.
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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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Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will.
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Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher’s help.
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One clings to life although there is nothing to be called life; another clings to death although there is nothing to be called death. In reality, there is nothing to be born; consequently, there is nothing to perish.
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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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Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.
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Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.
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Someone who seeks the Way doesn’t look beyond himself.
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Everything good and bad comes from your own mind. To find something beyond the mind is impossible.
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And as long as you’re subject to birth and death, you’ll never attain enlightenment.
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Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.
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