Bodhidharma Quotes, Life And Death Quotes, Suffering Quotes

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

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

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The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.

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

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

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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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The essence of the Way is detachment.

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All Buddhas preach emptiness. Why? Because they wish to crush the concrete ideas of the students. If a student even clings to an idea of emptiness, he betrays all Buddhas.

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

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Don't hate life and death or love life and death. Keep your every thought free of delusion, and in life you'll witness the beginning of nirvana, and in death you'll experience the assurance of no rebirth.

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

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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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When you don't understand, you depend on reality. When you do understand, reality depends on you.

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

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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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The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.

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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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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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To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.

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Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.

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