Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.
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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Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.
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The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.
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Trying to find a buddha or enlightenment is like trying to grab space.
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Many roads lead to the Path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.
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You can’t know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.
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To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.
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All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
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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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The essence of the Way is detachment.
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Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.
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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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Don’t hate life and death or love life and death. Keep your every thought free of delusion, and in life you’ll witness the beginning of nirvana, and in death you’ll experience the assurance of no rebirth.
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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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And the Buddha is the person who’s free: free of plans, free of cares.
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The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.
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