Regardless of what we do, our karma has no hold on us.
BODHIDHARMASomeone who seeks the Way doesn’t look beyond himself.
More Bodhidharma Quotes
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Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.
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Not creating delusions is enlightenment.
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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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To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.
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If you see your nature, you don’t need to read sutras or invoke buddhas. Erudition and knowledge are not only useless but also cloud your awareness. Doctrines are only for pointing to the mind. Once you see your mind, why pay attention to doctrines?
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Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will.
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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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In order to see a fish you must watch the water
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If you use your mind to look for a Buddha, you won’t see the Buddha.
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To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.
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Reality has no inside, outside, or middle part.
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Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.
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As long as you’re enthralled by a lifeless form, you’re not free.
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And as long as you’re subject to birth and death, you’ll never attain enlightenment.
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Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.
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