Bodhidharma Quotes, Moving Quotes, Birth Quotes

Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will.

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Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.

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

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The true Way is sublime. It can't be expressed in language. Of what use are scriptures? But someone who sees his own nature finds the Way, even if he can't read a word.

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

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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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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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If you know that everything comes from the mind, don't become attached. Once attached, you're unaware. But once you see your own nature, the entire Canon becomes so much prose. It's thousands of sutras and shastras only amount to a clear mind. Understanding comes in midsentence. What good are doctrines? The ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They're not the Way. The Way is wordless. Words are illusions. . . . Don't cling to appearances, and you'll break through all barriers. . . .

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As mortals, we're ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.

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

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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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And the Buddha is the person who's free: free of plans, free of cares.

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Buddhas don't practice nonsense.

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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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Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.

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

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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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People who don't see their own nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are liars and fools.

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