Neither gods nor men can foresee when an evil deed will bear its fruit.
BODHIDHARMATo find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.
More Bodhidharma Quotes
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To have a body is to suffer. Does anyone with a body know peace? Those who understand this detach themselves from all that exists and stop imagining or seeking anything. The sutras say, “To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.” When you seek nothing, you’re on the Path.
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As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you’ll never see that your own mind is the Buddha
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If you see your nature, you don’t need to read sutras or invoke buddhas. Erudition and knowledge are not only useless but also cloud your awareness. Doctrines are only for pointing to the mind. Once you see your mind, why pay attention to doctrines?
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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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Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will.
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People who don’t see their own nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are liars and fools.
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Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher’s help.
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Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.
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Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.
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But when you first embark on the Path, your awareness won’t be focused. You’re likely to see all sorts of strange, dreamlike scenes. But you shouldn’t doubt that all such scenes come from your own mind and nowhere else.
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If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.
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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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Reality has no inside, outside, or middle part.
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To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.
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The true Way is sublime. It can’t be expressed in language. Of what use are scriptures? But someone who sees his own nature finds the Way, even if he can’t read a word.
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