I never lost or fail, not yet conquered. If I fall seven times, I get up eight
BODHIDHARMAOnce you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.
More Bodhidharma Quotes
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Not creating delusions is enlightenment.
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But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.
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Someone who seeks the Way doesn’t look beyond himself.
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Many roads lead to the Path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.
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Everything sacred, nothing sacred.
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Externally keep yourself away from all relationships, and internally have no pantings in your heart; when your mind is like unto a straight-standing wall, you may enter into the Path.
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The ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They’re not the Way.
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Life and death are important. Don’t suffer them in vain.
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The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.
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Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will.
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To see nothing is to perceive the Way, and to understand nothing is to know the Dharma, because seeing is neither seeing nor not seeing, and because understanding is neither understanding nor not understanding.
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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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Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.
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And as long as you’re subject to birth and death, you’ll never attain enlightenment.
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To have a body is to suffer.
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