You can’t know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.
BODHIDHARMAOur nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.
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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All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
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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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Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.
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Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
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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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Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen.
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Regardless of what we do, our karma has no hold on us.
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And the Buddha is the person who’s free: free of plans, free of cares.
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Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.
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To have a body is to suffer.
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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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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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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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The mind is the root from which all things grow. If you can understand the mind, everything else is included.
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