Bodhidharma Quotes, Soul Quotes, Ego Quotes

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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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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In order to see a fish you must watch the water

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Externally keep yourself away from all relationships, and internally have no pantings in your heart; when your mind is like unto a straight-standing wall, you may enter into the Path.

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

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

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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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But deluded people don't realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside.

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

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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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All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.

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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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Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.

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To find Buddha, you have to see your nature. Whoever sees his nature is a Buddha. If you don't see your nature, invoking buddhas, reciting sutras, making offerings, and keeping precepts are all useless. Invoking buddhas results in good karma, reciting sutras results in a good memory, keeping precepts results in good rebirth, and making offerings results in future blessings-but no Buddha.

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Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.

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

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

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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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