Bodhidharma Quotes, Perfect Quotes

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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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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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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At every moment where language can't go, that's your mind.

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Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.

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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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The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.

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

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The Way is basically perfect. It doesn't require perfecting. The Way has no form or sound. It's subtle and hard to perceive. It's like when you drink water: you know how hot or cold it is, but you can't tell others.

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If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.

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Without the mind there is no Buddha. Without the Buddha there's no mind.

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Regardless of what we do, our karma has no hold on us.

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

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Unless you see your nature, all this talk about cause & effect is nonsense. Buddhas don't practice nonsense.

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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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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. . . . The mind and the world are opposites, and vision arises where they meet. 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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In order to see a fish you must watch the water

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