Bodhidharma Quotes, Moving Quotes, Birth Quotes

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

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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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All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.

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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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In order to see a fish you must watch the water

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Not creating delusions is enlightenment.

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To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.

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The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.

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

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Freeing oneself from words is liberation.

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

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Whoever realizes that the six senses aren't real, that the five aggregates are fictions, that no such things can be located anywhere in the body, understands the language of Buddhas.

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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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Everything good and bad comes from your own mind. To find something beyond the mind is impossible.

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

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Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.

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