At every moment where language can’t go, that’s your mind.
BODHIDHARMAAt every moment where language can’t go, that’s your mind.
More Bodhidharma Quotes
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Our true buddha-nature has no shape. And the dust of affliction has no form.
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The ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They’re not the Way.
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Everything sacred, nothing sacred.
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An Awakened person is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.
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But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.
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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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Everything good and bad comes from your own mind. To find something beyond the mind is impossible.
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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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Worship means reverence and humility. It means revering your real self and humbling delusions. If you can wipe out evil desires and harbor good thoughts, even if nothing shows, it’s worship. Such form is its real form.
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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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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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Many roads lead to the Path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.
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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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When we’re deluded there’s a world to escape. When we’re aware, there’s nothing to escape.
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People of this world are deluded. They’re always longing for something – always, in a word, seeking.
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