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

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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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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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And as long as you're subject to birth and death, you'll never attain enlightenment.

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. . . the fools of this world prefer to look for sages far away. They don't believe that the wisdom of their own mind is the sage . . . the sutras say, "Mind is the teaching." But people of no understanding don't believe in their own mind or that by understanding this teaching they can become a sage. They prefer to look for distant knowledge and long for things in space, buddha-images, light, incense, and colors. They fall prey to falsehood and lose their minds to insanity.

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The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.

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Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.

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

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

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Not creating delusions is enlightenment.

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

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Someone who seeks the Way doesn't look beyond himself.

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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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To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.

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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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The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.

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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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Unless you see your nature, all this talk about cause & effect is nonsense. Buddhas don't practice nonsense.

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

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