Bodhidharma Quotes, World Quotes

When we're deluded there's a world to escape. When we're aware, there's nothing to escape.

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

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To enter by reason means to realize the essence through instruction and to believe that all living things share the same true nature, which isn't apparent because it's shrouded by sensation and delusion.

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

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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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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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To have a body is to suffer. Does anyone with a body know peace? Those who understand this detach themselves from all that exists and stop imagining or seeking anything. The sutras say, "To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss." When you seek nothing, you're on the Path.

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All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.

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

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Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.

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

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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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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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The essence of the Way is detachment. And the goal of those who practice is freedom from appearances.

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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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To have a body is to suffer.

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

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

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

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

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