Bodhidharma Quotes, Conditions Quotes

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

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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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Trying to find a buddha or enlightenment is like trying to grab space.

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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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Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen.

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Neither gods nor men can foresee when an evil deed will bear its fruit.

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Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.

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The essence of the Way is detachment. And the goal of those who practice is freedom from appearances.

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

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To have a body is to suffer. Does anyone with a body know peace? Those who understand this detach themselves from all that exists and stop imagining or seeking anything. The sutras say, "To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss." When you seek nothing, you're on the Path.

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To enter by reason means to realize the essence through instruction and to believe that all living things share the same true nature, which isn't apparent because it's shrouded by sensation and delusion.

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Once you stop clinging and let things be, you'll be free, even of birth and death. You'll transform everything.

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

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

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Everything sacred, nothing sacred.

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If you use your mind to study reality, you won't understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you'll understand both. . . . The mind and the world are opposites, and vision arises where they meet. 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 creating delusions is enlightenment.

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At every moment where language can't go, that's your mind.

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