Bodhidharma Quotes, Essence Quotes, Way Quotes

The essence of the Way is detachment.

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

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

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Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.

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And as long as you're subject to birth and death, you'll never attain enlightenment.

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

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

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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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And the Buddha is the person who's free: free of plans, free of cares.

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Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.

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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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Many roads lead to the Path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.

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To have a body is to suffer.

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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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People who don't see their own nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are liars and fools.

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

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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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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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Worship means reverence and humility. It means revering your real self and humbling delusions. If you can wipe out evil desires and harbor good thoughts, even if nothing shows, it's worship. Such form is its real form.

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The Way is basically perfect. It doesn't require perfecting.

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