Bodhidharma Quotes, Doubt Quotes, Mind Quotes

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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To have a body is to suffer.

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

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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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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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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 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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People of this world are deluded. They're always longing for something, always, in a word, seeking. But the wise wake up. They choose reason over custom. They fix their minds on the sublime and let their bodies change with the seasons.

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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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I never lost or fail, not yet conquered. If I fall seven times, I get up eight

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When mortals are alive, they worry about death. When they're full, they worry about hunger. Theirs is the Great Uncertainty. But sages don't consider the past. And they don't worry about the future. Nor do they cling to the present. And from moment to moment they follow the Way.

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

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

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According to the Sutras, evil deeds result in hardships and good deeds result in blessings.

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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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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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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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Everything sacred, nothing sacred.

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

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