To go from mortal to Buddha, you have to put an end to karma, nurture your awareness, and accept what life brings.
BODHIDHARMAAll Buddhas preach emptiness. Why? Because they wish to crush the concrete ideas of the students. If a student even clings to an idea of emptiness, he betrays all Buddhas.
More Bodhidharma Quotes
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You can’t know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.
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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.
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The awareness of mortals falls short. As long as they’re attached to appearances, they’re unaware that their minds are empty. And by mistakenly clinging to the appearance of things they lose the Way.
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Reality has no inside, outside, or middle part.
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According to the Sutras, evil deeds result in hardships and good deeds result in blessings.
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As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you’ll never see that your own mind is the Buddha
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Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.
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The Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting.
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An Awakened person is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.
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Our true buddha-nature has no shape. And the dust of affliction has no form.
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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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Not creating delusions is enlightenment.
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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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All Buddhas preach emptiness. Why? Because they wish to crush the concrete ideas of the students. If a student even clings to an idea of emptiness, he betrays all Buddhas.
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Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen.
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