The mind is the root from which all things grow. If you can understand the mind, everything else is included.
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At every moment where language can’t go, that’s your mind.
More Bodhidharma Quotes
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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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The mind is always present. You just don’t see it.
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The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.
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Trying to find a buddha or enlightenment is like trying to grab space.
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When your mind doesn’t stir inside, the world doesn’t arise outside. When the world and the mind are both transparent, this is true vision. And such understanding is true understanding.
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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.
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The Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting.
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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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Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.
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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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Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.
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But this mind isn’t somewhere outside the material body of the four elements. Without this mind we can’t move. The body has no awareness. Like a plant or a stone, the body has no nature. So how does it move? It’s the mind that moves.
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In order to see a fish you must watch the water
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