Neither gods nor men can foresee when an evil deed will bear its fruit.
BODHIDHARMAWhoever 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.
More Bodhidharma Quotes
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You can’t know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.
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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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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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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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Everything good and bad comes from your own mind. To find something beyond the mind is impossible.
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Without the mind there is no Buddha. Without the Buddha there’s no mind.
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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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When we’re deluded there’s a world to escape. When we’re aware, there’s nothing to escape.
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People of this world are deluded. They’re always longing for something – always, in a word, seeking.
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Not creating delusions is enlightenment.
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Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.
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Life and death are important. Don’t suffer them in vain.
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The mind is always present. You just don’t see it.
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At every moment where language can’t go, that’s your mind.
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The Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting.
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