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

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Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.

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

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One clings to life although there is nothing to be called life; another clings to death although there is nothing to be called death. In reality, there is nothing to be born; consequently, there is nothing to perish.

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

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As long as you're enthralled by a lifeless form, you're not free.

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The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.

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

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

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

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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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Buddhas don't practice nonsense.

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At every moment where language can't go, that's your mind.

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

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