black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

But this mind isn’t somewhere outside the material body of the four elements. Without this mind we can’t move. The body has no awareness. Like a plant or a stone, the body has no nature. So how does it move? It’s the mind that moves.

Related Topics

Body Element Four Mind Move Outside Somewhere

Bagwalas

Popular Authors

Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

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.
BODHIDHARMA

Believe Enter Instruction Live Mean Reason
Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.
BODHIDHARMA

Buddha Liberate Mortal
Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.
BODHIDHARMA

Mind Nature Our Own
The mind is always present. You just don’t see it.
BODHIDHARMA

Always Mind Present See
Our true buddha-nature has no shape. And the dust of affliction has no form.
BODHIDHARMA

Affliction Buddha Dust Form Nature One Shape True
The mind is the root from which all things grow. If you can understand the mind, everything else is included.
BODHIDHARMA

Everything Grow Include Mind Root Thing Understand
When we’re deluded there’s a world to escape. When we’re aware, there’s nothing to escape.
BODHIDHARMA

Aware Delude Escape Nothing World
In order to see a fish you must watch the water
BODHIDHARMA

Fish Nothing Order See Seek
Not creating delusions is enlightenment.
BODHIDHARMA

Create Delusion Enlightenment
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.
BODHIDHARMA

Awareness Embark First Focus Path
To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.
BODHIDHARMA

Buddha Find Look Nature See
The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.
BODHIDHARMA

Body Budhha Mind Original Rel
Neither gods nor men can foresee when an evil deed will bear its fruit.
BODHIDHARMA

Bear Deed Evil Forse Fruit God Neither
According to the Sutras, evil deeds result in hardships and good deeds result in blessings.
BODHIDHARMA

Accordingly Bless Deed Evil Good Hardship Result Sutras
As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you’ll never see that your own mind is the Buddha
BODHIDHARMA

Buddha Long Mind never Somewhere
Everything sacred, nothing sacred.
BODHIDHARMA

Everything Nothing Sacred Scare

Copyright: 2020 - 2023 | Minimalist Quotes