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.
BODHIDHARMATo find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.
More Bodhidharma Quotes
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An Awakened person is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.
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Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen.
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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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Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
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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 enter by reason means to realize the essence through instruction and to believe that all living things share the same true nature, which isn’t apparent because it’s shrouded by sensation and delusion.
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The mind is the root from which all things grow. If you can understand the mind, everything else is included.
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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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The essence of the Way is detachment.
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Our true buddha-nature has no shape. And the dust of affliction has no form.
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Everything sacred, nothing sacred.
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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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At every moment where language can’t go, that’s your mind.
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Reality has no inside, outside, or middle part.
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Not creating delusions is enlightenment.
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