Bodhidharma Quotes, Sublime Quotes, Use Quotes

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 mind is always present. You just don't see it.

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Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.

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

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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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The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.

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

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Not creating delusions is enlightenment.

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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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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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When mortals are alive, they worry about death. When they're full, they worry about hunger. Theirs is the Great Uncertainty. But sages don't consider the past. And they don't worry about the future. Nor do they cling to the present. And from moment to moment they follow the Way.

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Once you stop clinging and let things be, you'll be free, even of birth and death. You'll transform everything.

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Reality has no inside, outside, or middle part.

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Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.

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

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In order to see a fish you must watch the water

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Life and death are important. Don't suffer them in vain.

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An Awakened person is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.

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All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.

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Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.

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