Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will.
BODHIDHARMAThe essence of the Way is detachment.
More Bodhidharma Quotes
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To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.
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Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.
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I never lost or fail, not yet conquered. If I fall seven times, I get up eight
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Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.
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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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Leaving behind the false, return to the true: make no discriminations between self and others. In contemplation, one’s mind should be stable and unmoving, like a wall.
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Many roads lead to the Path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.
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All know the way, but few actually walk it.
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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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To go from mortal to Buddha, you have to put an end to karma, nurture your awareness, and accept what life brings.
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The ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They’re not the Way.
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At every moment where language can’t go, that’s your mind.
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Whoever 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.
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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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Reality has no inside, outside, or middle part.
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