Bodhidharma Quotes, Karma Quotes

Regardless of what we do, our karma has no hold on us.

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

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

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

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

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

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Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher's help.

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Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.

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To go from mortal to Buddha, you have to put an end to karma, nurture your awareness, and accept what life brings.

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

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

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This one life has no form and is empty by nature. If you become attached by any form, you should reject it. If you see an ego, a soul, a birth, or a death, reject them all.

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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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The mind's capacity is limitless, and its manifestations are inexhaustible. Seeing forms with your eyes, hearing sounds with your ears, smelling odors with your nose, tasting flavors with your tongue, every movement or state is all your mind.

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Without the mind there is no Buddha. Without the Buddha there's no mind.

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I do not need any writing, since I transmit teaching beyond words and ideas.

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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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