Bodhidharma Quotes, Wall Quotes, Self Quotes

Leaving behind the false, return to the true: make no discriminations between self and others. In contemplation, one's mind should be stable and unmoving, like a wall.

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

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

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

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

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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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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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All know the way, but few actually walk it.

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The essence of the Way is detachment.

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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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When we're deluded there's a world to escape. When we're aware, there's nothing to escape.

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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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Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.

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. . . the fools of this world prefer to look for sages far away. They don't believe that the wisdom of their own mind is the sage . . . the sutras say, "Mind is the teaching." But people of no understanding don't believe in their own mind or that by understanding this teaching they can become a sage. They prefer to look for distant knowledge and long for things in space, buddha-images, light, incense, and colors. They fall prey to falsehood and lose their minds to insanity.

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The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.

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In order to see a fish you must watch the water

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Reality has no inside, outside, or middle part.

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Many roads lead to the Path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.

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Not thinking about anything is zen. Once you know this, walking, standing, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is zen. To know that the mind is empty is to see the buddha.... Using the mind to reality is delusion. Not using the mind to look for reality is awareness. Freeing oneself from words is liberation.

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Buddhas don't practice nonsense.

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