Bodhidharma Quotes

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

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

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I never lost or fail, not yet conquered. If I fall seven times, I get up eight

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

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

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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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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 find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.

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Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.

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

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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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The mind is the root from which all things grow. If you can understand the mind, everything else is included.

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The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.

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Everything sacred, nothing sacred.

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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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The essence of the Way is detachment.

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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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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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