Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.
BODHIDHARMANot engaging in ignorance is wisdom.
BODHIDHARMAThose who worship don’t know, and those who know don’t worship.
BODHIDHARMANot creating delusions is enlightenment.
BODHIDHARMAMortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.
BODHIDHARMADelusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.
BODHIDHARMAIn order to see a fish you must watch the water
BODHIDHARMAWhen you don’t understand, you depend on reality. When you do understand, reality depends on you.
BODHIDHARMABut people of the deepest understanding look within, distracted by nothing. Since a clear mind is the Buddha, they attain the understanding of a Buddha without using the mind.
BODHIDHARMALeaving 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.
BODHIDHARMABuddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will.
BODHIDHARMAAll Buddhas preach emptiness. Why? Because they wish to crush the concrete ideas of the students. If a student even clings to an idea of emptiness, he betrays all Buddhas.
BODHIDHARMAPeople of this world are deluded. They’re always longing for something – always, in a word, seeking.
BODHIDHARMAReality has no inside, outside, or middle part.
BODHIDHARMABuddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.
BODHIDHARMAWhen we’re deluded there’s a world to escape. When we’re aware, there’s nothing to escape.
BODHIDHARMAThose who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.
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