To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.
BODHIDHARMA
The ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They’re not the Way.
More Bodhidharma Quotes
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To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.
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Trying to find a buddha or enlightenment is like trying to grab space.
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The true Way is sublime. It can’t be expressed in language. Of what use are scriptures? But someone who sees his own nature finds the Way, even if he can’t read a word.
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To have a body is to suffer. Does anyone with a body know peace? Those who understand this detach themselves from all that exists and stop imagining or seeking anything. The sutras say, “To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.” When you seek nothing, you’re on the Path.
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But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.
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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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Whoever realizes that the six senses aren’t real, that the five aggregates are fictions, that no such things can be located anywhere in the body, understands the language of Buddhas.
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The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.
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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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Whoever knows that the mind is a fiction and devoid of anything real knows that his own mind neither exists nor doesn’t exist.
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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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At every moment where language can’t go, that’s your mind.
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Buddhas don’t practice nonsense.
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As long as you’re enthralled by a lifeless form, you’re not free.
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Regardless of what we do, our karma has no hold on us.
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