Not thinking about anything is zen. Once you know this, walking, standing, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is zen. To know that the mind is empty is to see the buddha…. Using the mind to reality is delusion. Not using the mind to look for reality is awareness. Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
BODHIDHARMAThe 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.
More Bodhidharma Quotes
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The essence of the Way is detachment. And the goal of those who practice is freedom from appearances.
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Trying to find a buddha or enlightenment is like trying to grab space.
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The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.
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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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Reality has no inside, outside, or middle part.
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In order to see a fish you must watch the water
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Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.
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Neither gods nor men can foresee when an evil deed will bear its fruit.
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Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.
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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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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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Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.
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Our true buddha-nature has no shape. And the dust of affliction has no form.
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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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