To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.
BODHIDHARMAOnly one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher’s help.
More Bodhidharma Quotes
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Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.
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To have a body is to suffer. Does anyone with a body know peace? Those who understand this detach themselves from all that exists and stop imagining or seeking anything. The sutras say, “To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.” When you seek nothing, you’re on the Path.
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Externally keep yourself away from all relationships, and internally have no pantings in your heart; when your mind is like unto a straight-standing wall, you may enter into the Path.
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Not thinking about anything is zen. Once you know this, walking, standing, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is zen. To know that the mind is empty is to see the buddha…. Using the mind to reality is delusion. Not using the mind to look for reality is awareness. Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
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Buddhas don’t practice nonsense.
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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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According to the Sutras, evil deeds result in hardships and good deeds result in blessings.
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Don’t hate life and death or love life and death. Keep your every thought free of delusion, and in life you’ll witness the beginning of nirvana, and in death you’ll experience the assurance of no rebirth.
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To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.
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Our true buddha-nature has no shape. And the dust of affliction has no form.
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The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.
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Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.
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Life and death are important. Don’t suffer them in vain.
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And the Buddha is the person who’s free: free of plans, free of cares.
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If we should be blessed by some great reward, such as fame or fortune, it’s the fruit of a seed planted by us in the past.
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