Bodhidharma Quotes

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

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Our true buddha-nature has no shape. And the dust of affliction has no form.

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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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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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Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.

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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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As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you'll never see that your own mind is the Buddha

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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 Buddha is your real body, your original mind.

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

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But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.

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The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is 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 of this world are deluded. They're always longing for something - always, in a word, seeking.

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Unless you see your nature, you shouldn't go around criticizing the goodness of others. There's no advantage in deceiving yourself. Good and bad are distinct. Cause and effect are clear. But fools don't believe and fall straight into a hell of endless darkness without even knowing it. What keeps them from believing is the heaviness of their karma. They're like blind people who don't believe there's such a thing as light. Even if you explain it to them, they still don't believe, because they're blind. How can they possibly distinguish light?

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Worship means reverence and humility. It means revering your real self and humbling delusions. If you can wipe out evil desires and harbor good thoughts, even if nothing shows, it's worship. Such form is its real form.

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

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Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.

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Freeing oneself from words is liberation.

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