Bodhidharma Quotes, Roots Quotes, Mind Quotes

The mind is the root from which all things grow. If you can understand the mind, everything else is included.

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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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The Buddha is your real body, your original mind. This mind has no form or characteristics, no cause or effect, no tendons or bones. It's like space. You can't hold it. It's not the mind of materialists or nihilists. If you don't see your own miraculously aware nature, you'll never find a Buddha, even if you break your body into atoms.

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As long as you're enthralled by a lifeless form, you're not free.

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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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Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen.

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Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.

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Freeing oneself from words is liberation.

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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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Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.

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

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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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To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.

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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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But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.

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

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

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The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.

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To see nothing is to perceive the Way, and to understand nothing is to know the Dharma, because seeing is neither seeing nor not seeing, and because understanding is neither understanding nor not understanding.

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When your mind doesn't stir inside, the world doesn't arise outside. When the world and the mind are both transparent, this is true vision. And such understanding is true understanding.

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