Reality has no inside, outside, or middle part.
BODHIDHARMAAs long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you’ll never see that your own mind is the Buddha
More Bodhidharma Quotes
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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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The true Way is sublime. It can’t be expressed in language. Of what use are scriptures? But someone who sees his own nature finds the Way, even if he can’t read a word.
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Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher’s help.
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The Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting. The Way has no form or sound. It’s subtle and hard to perceive. It’s like when you drink water: you know how hot or cold it is, but you can’t tell others.
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Not creating delusions is enlightenment.
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To have a body is to suffer.
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The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.
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You can’t know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.
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Everything sacred, nothing sacred.
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Trying to find a buddha or enlightenment is like trying to grab space.
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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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The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.
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The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.
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Whoever realizes that the six senses aren’t real, that the five aggregates are fictions, that no such things can be located anywhere in the body, understands the language of Buddhas.
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Buddhas don’t practice nonsense.
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