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

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

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But people of the deepest understanding look within, distracted by nothing. Since a clear mind is the Buddha, they attain the understanding of a Buddha without using the mind.

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

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

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

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As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you'll never see that your own mind is the Buddha

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

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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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All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.

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If you use your mind to look for a Buddha, you won't see the Buddha.

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Buddhas don't practice nonsense.

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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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Whoever knows that the mind is a fiction and devoid of anything real knows that his own mind neither exists nor doesn't exist.

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The essence of the Way is detachment.

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Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.

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This one life has no form and is empty by nature. If you become attached by any form, you should reject it. If you see an ego, a soul, a birth, or a death, reject them all.

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If you use your mind to study reality, you won't understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you'll understand both. . . . The mind and the world are opposites, and vision arises where they meet. 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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