Bodhidharma Quotes, Blessing Quotes, Kind Deeds Quotes

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

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Reality has no inside, outside, or middle part.

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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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To have a body is to suffer.

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If we should be blessed by some great reward, such as fame or fortune, it's the fruit of a seed planted by us in the past.

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All Buddhas preach emptiness. Why? Because they wish to crush the concrete ideas of the students. If a student even clings to an idea of emptiness, he betrays all Buddhas.

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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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Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will.

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

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

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The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.

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

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

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All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.

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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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The essence of the Way is detachment. And the goal of those who practice is freedom from appearances.

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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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Buddhas don't practice nonsense.

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