But deluded people don’t realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside.
BODHIDHARMASomeone who seeks the Way doesn’t look beyond himself.
More Bodhidharma Quotes
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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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And the Buddha is the person who’s free: free of plans, free of cares.
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Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.
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The Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting.
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Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
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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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The mind is the root from which all things grow. If you can understand the mind, everything else is included.
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The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.
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If you use your mind to look for a Buddha, you won’t see the Buddha.
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If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.
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If you use your mind to study reality, you won’t understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you’ll understand both.
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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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To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.
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To have a body is to suffer.
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Regardless of what we do, our karma has no hold on us.
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