Bodhidharma Quotes, Lying Quotes, Reality Quotes

Not thinking about anything is zen. Once you know this, walking, standing, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is zen. To know that the mind is empty is to see the buddha.... Using the mind to reality is delusion. Not using the mind to look for reality is awareness. Freeing oneself from words is liberation.

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

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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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Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen.

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Don't hate life and death or love life and death. Keep your every thought free of delusion, and in life you'll witness the beginning of nirvana, and in death you'll experience the assurance of no rebirth.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.

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Everything good and bad comes from your own mind. To find something beyond the mind is impossible.

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

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Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.

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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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All know the way, but few actually walk it.

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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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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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