And as long as you’re subject to birth and death, you’ll never attain enlightenment.
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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Trying to find a buddha or enlightenment is like trying to grab space.
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Whoever knows that the mind is a fiction and devoid of anything real knows that his own mind neither exists nor doesn’t exist.
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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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As long as you’re enthralled by a lifeless form, you’re not free.
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Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
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To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.
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Buddhas don’t practice nonsense.
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And the Buddha is the person who’s free: free of plans, free of cares.
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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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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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At every moment where language can’t go, that’s your mind.
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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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Everything sacred, nothing sacred.
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The essence of the Way is detachment. And the goal of those who practice is freedom from appearances.
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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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