Bodhidharma Quotes, Doctrine Quotes, Way Quotes

The ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They're not the Way.

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According to the Sutras, evil deeds result in hardships and good deeds result in blessings.

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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.

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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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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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Those who worship don't know, and those who know don't worship.

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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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The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.

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Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.

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Someone who seeks the Way doesn't look beyond himself.

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In order to see a fish you must watch the water

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Trying to find a buddha or enlightenment is like trying to grab space.

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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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But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.

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As mortals, we're ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.

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Buddhas don't practice nonsense.

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The Way is basically perfect. It doesn't require perfecting.

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To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.

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All know the way, but few actually walk it.

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A buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad. Such is his power that karma can't hold him. No matter what kind of karma, a buddha transforms it. Heaven and hell are nothing to him. But the awareness of a mortal is dim compared to that of a buddha, who penetrates everything, inside and out.

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