Bodhidharma Quotes, Roots Quotes, Mind Quotes

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

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

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People of this world are deluded. They're always longing for something - always, in a word, seeking.

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People of this world are deluded. They're always longing for something, always, in a word, seeking. But the wise wake up. They choose reason over custom. They fix their minds on the sublime and let their bodies change with the seasons.

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The Buddha is your real body, your original mind. This mind has no form or characteristics, no cause or effect, no tendons or bones. It's like space. You can't hold it. It's not the mind of materialists or nihilists. If you don't see your own miraculously aware nature, you'll never find a Buddha, even if you break your body into atoms.

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

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

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

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

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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 the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.

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But people of the deepest understanding look within, distracted by nothing. Since a clear mind is the Buddha, they attain the understanding of a Buddha without using the mind.

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An Awakened person is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.

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As long as you're enthralled by a lifeless form, you're not free.

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The awareness of mortals falls short. As long as they're attached to appearances, they're unaware that their minds are empty. And by mistakenly clinging to the appearance of things they lose the Way.

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

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If you see your nature, you don't need to read sutras or invoke buddhas. Erudition and knowledge are not only useless but also cloud your awareness. Doctrines are only for pointing to the mind. Once you see your mind, why pay attention to doctrines?

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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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