Bodhidharma Quotes, Attachment Quotes, Transformation Quotes

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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This one life has no form and is empty by nature. If you become attached by any form, you should reject it. If you see an ego, a soul, a birth, or a death, reject them all.

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Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher's help.

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You can't know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.

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Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.

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

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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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To find Buddha, you have to see your nature. Whoever sees his nature is a Buddha. If you don't see your nature, invoking buddhas, reciting sutras, making offerings, and keeping precepts are all useless. Invoking buddhas results in good karma, reciting sutras results in a good memory, keeping precepts results in good rebirth, and making offerings results in future blessings-but no Buddha.

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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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To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.

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Unless you see your nature, you shouldn't go around criticizing the goodness of others. There's no advantage in deceiving yourself. Good and bad are distinct. Cause and effect are clear. But fools don't believe and fall straight into a hell of endless darkness without even knowing it. What keeps them from believing is the heaviness of their karma. They're like blind people who don't believe there's such a thing as light. Even if you explain it to them, they still don't believe, because they're blind. How can they possibly distinguish light?

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Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.

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If you see your nature, you don't need to read sutras or invoke buddhas. Erudition and knowledge are not only useless but also cloud your awareness. Doctrines are only for pointing to the mind. Once you see your mind, why pay attention to doctrines?

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Neither gods nor men can foresee when an evil deed will bear its fruit.

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I never lost or fail, not yet conquered. If I fall seven times, I get up eight

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If you use your mind to look for a Buddha, you won't see the Buddha.

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