Bodhidharma Quotes, Long Quotes, Enlightenment Quotes

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

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

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The Way is basically perfect. It doesn't require perfecting. The Way has no form or sound. It's subtle and hard to perceive. It's like when you drink water: you know how hot or cold it is, but you can't tell others.

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To find Buddha, you have to see your nature. Whoever sees his nature is a Buddha. If you don't see your nature, invoking buddhas, reciting sutras, making offerings, and keeping precepts are all useless. Invoking buddhas results in good karma, reciting sutras results in a good memory, keeping precepts results in good rebirth, and making offerings results in future blessings-but no Buddha.

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Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.

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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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All Buddhas preach emptiness. Why? Because they wish to crush the concrete ideas of the students. If a student even clings to an idea of emptiness, he betrays all Buddhas.

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

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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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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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Buddhas don't practice nonsense.

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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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Someone who seeks the Way doesn't look beyond himself.

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As mortals, we're ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.

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

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The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.

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But this mind isn't somewhere outside the material body of the four elements. Without this mind we can't move. The body has no awareness. Like a plant or a stone, the body has no nature. So how does it move? It's the mind that moves.

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

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All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.

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