The true Way is sublime. It can’t be expressed in language. Of what use are scriptures? But someone who sees his own nature finds the Way, even if he can’t read a word.
BODHIDHARMAOnce you stop clinging and let things be, you’ll be free, even of birth and death. You’ll transform everything.
More Bodhidharma Quotes
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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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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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The awareness of mortals falls short. As long as they’re attached to appearances, they’re unaware that their minds are empty. And by mistakenly clinging to the appearance of things they lose the Way.
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Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.
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An Awakened person is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.
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The essence of the Way is detachment.
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Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.
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The essence of the Way is detachment. And the goal of those who practice is freedom from appearances.
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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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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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Neither gods nor men can foresee when an evil deed will bear its fruit.
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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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To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.
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Those who worship don’t know, and those who know don’t worship.
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If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.
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