Bodhidharma Quotes, Doubt Quotes, Mind Quotes

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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Buddhas don't practice nonsense.

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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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Still others commit all sorts of evil deeds, claiming karma doesn't exist. They erroneously maintain that since everything is empty, committing evil isn't wrong. Such persons fall into a hell of endless darkness with no hope of release. Those who are wise hold no such conception.

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

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But deluded people don't realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside.

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Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.

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

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

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Unless you see your nature, you shouldn't go around criticizing the goodness of others. There's no advantage in deceiving yourself. Good and bad are distinct. Cause and effect are clear. But fools don't believe and fall straight into a hell of endless darkness without even knowing it. What keeps them from believing is the heaviness of their karma. They're like blind people who don't believe there's such a thing as light. Even if you explain it to them, they still don't believe, because they're blind. How can they possibly distinguish light?

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Once you stop clinging and let things be, you'll be free, even of birth and death. You'll transform everything.

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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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Unless you see your nature, all this talk about cause & effect is nonsense. Buddhas don't practice nonsense.

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All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.

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Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.

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Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.

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The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.

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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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All know the way, but few actually walk it.

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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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