Bodhidharma Quotes, Land Quotes, Mind Quotes

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

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

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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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Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.

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

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But this mind isn't somewhere outside the material body of the four elements. Without this mind we can't move. The body has no awareness. Like a plant or a stone, the body has no nature. So how does it move? It's the mind that moves.

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The essence of the Way is detachment.

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

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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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Life and death are important. Don't suffer them in vain.

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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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In order to see a fish you must watch the water

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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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Buddhas don't practice nonsense.

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Not creating delusions is enlightenment.

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Reality has no inside, outside, or middle part.

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

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I never lost or fail, not yet conquered. If I fall seven times, I get up eight

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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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