Not creating delusions is enlightenment.
BODHIDHARMASomeone who seeks the Way doesn’t look beyond himself.
More Bodhidharma Quotes
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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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Someone who seeks the Way doesn’t look beyond himself.
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Without the mind there is no Buddha. Without the Buddha there’s no mind.
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Those who worship don’t know, and those who know don’t worship.
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If you use your mind to look for a Buddha, you won’t see the Buddha.
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The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.
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Many roads lead to the Path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.
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And the Buddha is the person who’s free: free of plans, free of cares.
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The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.
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As mortals, we’re ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.
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If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.
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The Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting.
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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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Neither gods nor men can foresee when an evil deed will bear its fruit.
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But people of the deepest understanding look within, distracted by nothing. Since a clear mind is the Buddha, they attain the understanding of a Buddha without using the mind.
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