Everything good and bad comes from your own mind. To find something beyond the mind is impossible.
BODHIDHARMAThe Buddha is your real body, your original mind.
More Bodhidharma Quotes
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Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher’s help.
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The essence of the Way is detachment.
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To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.
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As long as you’re enthralled by a lifeless form, you’re not free.
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An Awakened person is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.
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Reality has no inside, outside, or middle part.
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The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.
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Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.
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Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.
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When your mind doesn’t stir inside, the world doesn’t arise outside. When the world and the mind are both transparent, this is true vision. And such understanding is true understanding.
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Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.
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As mortals, we’re ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.
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The ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They’re not the Way.
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If you use your mind to look for a Buddha, you won’t see the Buddha.
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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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