Bodhidharma Quotes, Understanding Quotes, Way Quotes

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

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Neither gods nor men can foresee when an evil deed will bear its fruit.

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

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

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To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.

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

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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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All know the way, but few actually walk it.

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Reality has no inside, outside, or middle part.

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

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Freeing oneself from words is liberation.

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

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Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.

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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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You can't know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.

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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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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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