In order to see a fish you must watch the water
BODHIDHARMAOnly one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher’s help.
More Bodhidharma Quotes
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To go from mortal to Buddha, you have to put an end to karma, nurture your awareness, and accept what life brings.
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Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.
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At every moment where language can’t go, that’s your 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 Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.
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The essence of the Way is detachment.
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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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Once you stop clinging and let things be, you’ll be free, even of birth and death. You’ll transform everything.
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If you use your mind to look for a Buddha, you won’t see the Buddha.
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Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.
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But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.
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All know the way, but few actually walk it.
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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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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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To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.
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