I never lost or fail, not yet conquered. If I fall seven times, I get up eight
BODHIDHARMANot thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen.
More Bodhidharma Quotes
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But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.
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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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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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Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will.
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Not creating delusions is enlightenment.
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Still others commit all sorts of evil deeds, claiming karma doesn’t exist. They erroneously maintain that since everything is empty, committing evil isn’t wrong. Such persons fall into a hell of endless darkness with no hope of release. Those who are wise hold no such conception.
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Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.
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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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Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.
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The awareness of mortals falls short. As long as they’re attached to appearances, they’re unaware that their minds are empty. And by mistakenly clinging to the appearance of things they lose the Way.
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I do not need any writing, since I transmit teaching beyond words and ideas.
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But people of the deepest understanding look within, distracted by nothing. Since a clear mind is the Buddha, they attain the understanding of a Buddha without using the mind.
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All Buddhas preach emptiness. Why? Because they wish to crush the concrete ideas of the students. If a student even clings to an idea of emptiness, he betrays all Buddhas.
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Someone who seeks the Way doesn’t look beyond himself.
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