Bodhidharma Quotes

Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.

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

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Those who worship don't know, and those who know don't worship.

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All know the way, but few actually walk it.

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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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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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Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.

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This one life has no form and is empty by nature. If you become attached by any form, you should reject it. If you see an ego, a soul, a birth, or a death, reject them all.

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To have a body is to suffer.

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To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.

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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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Regardless of what we do, our karma has no hold on us.

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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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The mind's capacity is limitless, and its manifestations are inexhaustible. Seeing forms with your eyes, hearing sounds with your ears, smelling odors with your nose, tasting flavors with your tongue, every movement or state is all your mind.

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

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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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The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.

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When mortals are alive, they worry about death. When they're full, they worry about hunger. Theirs is the Great Uncertainty. But sages don't consider the past. And they don't worry about the future. Nor do they cling to the present. And from moment to moment they follow the Way.

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