Bodhidharma Quotes
Quotations and aphorisms by Bodhidharma:
According to the Sutras, evil deeds result in hardships and good deeds result in blessings.
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Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher's help.
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Life and death are important. Don't suffer them in vain.
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As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you'll never see that your own mind is the Buddha.
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As long as you're enthralled by a lifeless form, you're not free.
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Many roads lead to the path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.
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And as long as you're subject to birth and death, you'll never attain enlightenment.
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Not creating delusions is enlightenment.
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Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.
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People who don't see their nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are lairs and fools.
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Your nature is the Buddha.
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Words are illusions.
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If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.
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The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.
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Your mind is nirvana.
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All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
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To enter by reason means to realize the essence through instruction and to believe that all living things share the same true nature, which isn't apparent because it's shrouded by sensation and delusion.
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To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.
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Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.
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And the Buddha is the person who's free: free of plans, free of cares.
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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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If you use your mind to study reality, you won't understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you'll understand both.
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The mind is always present. You just don't see it.
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Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will.
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The mind is the root from which all things grow if you can understand the mind, everything else is included.
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Neither gods nor men can foresee when an evil deed will bear its fruit.
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Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.
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But deluded people don't realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside.
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A Buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.
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Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.
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Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.
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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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If you use your mind to look for a Buddha, you won't see the Buddha.
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The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.
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Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.
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Whoever knows that the mind is a fiction and devoid of anything real knows that his own mind neither exists nor doesn't exist.
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As mortals, we're ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.
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Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.
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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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All phenomena are empty.
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But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.
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Regardless of what we do, our karma has no hold on us.
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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.
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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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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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Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
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The Way is basically perfect. It doesn't require perfecting.
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Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.
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To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.
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The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.
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Buddhas don't practice nonsense.
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The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.
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You can't know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.
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To have a body is to suffer.
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