The mind’s capacity is limitless, and its manifestations are inexhaustible. Seeing forms with your eyes, hearing sounds with your ears, smelling odors with your nose, tasting flavors with your tongue, every movement or state is all your mind.
BODHIDHARMASomeone who seeks the Way doesn’t look beyond himself.
More Bodhidharma Quotes
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Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.
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And as long as you’re subject to birth and death, you’ll never attain enlightenment.
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Many roads lead to the Path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.
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But deluded people don’t realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside.
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All know the way, but few actually walk it.
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Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.
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Neither gods nor men can foresee when an evil deed will bear its fruit.
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If you use your mind to look for a Buddha, you won’t see the Buddha.
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Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.
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All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
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Don’t hate life and death or love life and death. Keep your every thought free of delusion, and in life you’ll witness the beginning of nirvana, and in death you’ll experience the assurance of no rebirth.
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Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.
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But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.
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To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.
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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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