Bodhidharma Quotes, Understanding Quotes, Way Quotes

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 always present. You just don't see it.

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Worship means reverence and humility. It means revering your real self and humbling delusions. If you can wipe out evil desires and harbor good thoughts, even if nothing shows, it's worship. Such form is its real form.

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Whoever knows that the mind is a fiction and devoid of anything real knows that his own mind neither exists nor doesn't exist.

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

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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 ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.

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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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Everything sacred, nothing sacred.

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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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If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.

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

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

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Externally keep yourself away from all relationships, and internally have no pantings in your heart; when your mind is like unto a straight-standing wall, you may enter into the Path.

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

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Reality has no inside, outside, or middle part.

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If you use your mind to look for a Buddha, you won't see the Buddha.

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When your mind doesn't stir inside, the world doesn't arise outside. When the world and the mind are both transparent, this is true vision. And such understanding is true understanding.

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Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.

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