And as long as you’re subject to birth and death, you’ll never attain enlightenment.
BODHIDHARMAThe Buddha is your real body, your original mind.
More Bodhidharma Quotes
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All know the way, but few actually walk it.
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Buddhas don’t practice nonsense.
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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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The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.
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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 ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They’re not the Way.
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Many roads lead to the Path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.
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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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When we’re deluded there’s a world to escape. When we’re aware, there’s nothing to escape.
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Leaving 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.
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But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.
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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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Those who worship don’t know, and those who know don’t worship.
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Life and death are important. Don’t suffer them in vain.
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The Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting.
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