Bodhidharma Quotes, Doctrine Quotes, Way Quotes

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

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I do not need any writing, since I transmit teaching beyond words and ideas.

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

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Reality has no inside, outside, or middle part.

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When you don't understand, you depend on reality. When you do understand, reality depends on you.

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People of this world are deluded. They're always longing for something, always, in a word, seeking. But the wise wake up. They choose reason over custom. They fix their minds on the sublime and let their bodies change with the seasons.

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

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As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you'll never see that your own mind is the Buddha

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

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Not creating delusions is enlightenment.

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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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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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Our true buddha-nature has no shape. And the dust of affliction has no form.

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

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Buddhas don't practice nonsense.

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

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Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.

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To go from mortal to Buddha, you have to put an end to karma, nurture your awareness, and accept what life brings.

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