Bodhidharma Quotes, Lying Quotes, Reality Quotes

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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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.

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

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

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If you see your nature, you don't need to read sutras or invoke buddhas. Erudition and knowledge are not only useless but also cloud your awareness. Doctrines are only for pointing to the mind. Once you see your mind, why pay attention to doctrines?

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

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

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

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

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To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.

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Whoever knows that the mind is a fiction and devoid of anything real knows that his own mind neither exists nor doesn't exist.

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If you use your mind to look for a Buddha, you won't see the Buddha.

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Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.

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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 Way is basically perfect. It doesn't require perfecting.

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Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.

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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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