Bodhidharma Quotes, Doubt Quotes, Mind Quotes

But when you first embark on the Path, your awareness won't be focused. You're likely to see all sorts of strange, dreamlike scenes. But you shouldn't doubt that all such scenes come from your own mind and nowhere else.

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When you don't understand, you depend on reality. When you do understand, reality depends on you.

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

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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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According to the Sutras, evil deeds result in hardships and good deeds result in blessings.

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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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An Awakened person is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.

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The essence of the Way is detachment.

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

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All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.

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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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Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.

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

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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 ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They're not the Way.

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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 Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.

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Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.

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All know the way, but few actually walk it.

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

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