Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.
BODHIDHARMAThe Buddha is your real body, your original mind.
More Bodhidharma Quotes
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Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.
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I never lost or fail, not yet conquered. If I fall seven times, I get up eight
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The Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting.
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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.
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To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.
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But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.
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The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.
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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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This one life has no form and is empty by nature. If you become attached by any form, you should reject it. If you see an ego, a soul, a birth, or a death, reject them all.
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As long as you’re enthralled by a lifeless form, you’re not free.
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You can’t know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.
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To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.
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Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.
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Trying to find a buddha or enlightenment is like trying to grab space.
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Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher’s help.
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