Bodhidharma Quotes, Perfect Quotes

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

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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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Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.

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

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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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Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.

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

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Not creating delusions is enlightenment.

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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.

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

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In order to see a fish you must watch the water

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

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Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.

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When we're deluded there's a world to escape. When we're aware, there's nothing to escape.

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. . . the fools of this world prefer to look for sages far away. They don't believe that the wisdom of their own mind is the sage . . . the sutras say, "Mind is the teaching." But people of no understanding don't believe in their own mind or that by understanding this teaching they can become a sage. They prefer to look for distant knowledge and long for things in space, buddha-images, light, incense, and colors. They fall prey to falsehood and lose their minds to insanity.

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Externally keep yourself away from all relationships, and internally have no pantings in your heart; when your mind is like unto a straight-standing wall, you may enter into the Path.

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

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