But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.
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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Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.
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The ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They’re not the Way.
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When you don’t understand, you depend on reality. When you do understand, reality depends on you.
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Without the mind there is no Buddha. Without the Buddha there’s no mind.
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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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The mind is the root from which all things grow. If you can understand the mind, everything else is included.
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All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
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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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The essence of the Way is detachment.
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Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher’s help.
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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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If you use your mind to look for a Buddha, you won’t see the Buddha.
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Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
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Those who worship don’t know, and those who know don’t worship.
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I do not need any writing, since I transmit teaching beyond words and ideas.
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