But when you first embark on the Path, your awareness won’t be focused. You’re likely to see all sorts of strange, dreamlike scenes. But you shouldn’t doubt that all such scenes come from your own mind and nowhere else.
BODHIDHARMAAt every moment where language can’t go, that’s your mind.
More Bodhidharma Quotes
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The mind’s capacity is limitless, and its manifestations are inexhaustible. Seeing forms with your eyes, hearing sounds with your ears, smelling odors with your nose, tasting flavors with your tongue, every movement or state is all your mind.
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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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Life and death are important. Don’t suffer them in vain.
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Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.
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People of this world are deluded. They’re always longing for something, always, in a word, seeking. But the wise wake up. They choose reason over custom. They fix their minds on the sublime and let their bodies change with the seasons.
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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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To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.
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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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And as long as you’re subject to birth and death, you’ll never attain enlightenment.
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The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.
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If you use your mind to look for a Buddha, you won’t see the Buddha.
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To see nothing is to perceive the Way, and to understand nothing is to know the Dharma, because seeing is neither seeing nor not seeing, and because understanding is neither understanding nor not understanding.
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Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
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The ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They’re not the Way.
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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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