Bodhidharma Quotes, Looks Quotes, Way Quotes

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

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In order to see a fish you must watch the water

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To have a body is to suffer. Does anyone with a body know peace? Those who understand this detach themselves from all that exists and stop imagining or seeking anything. The sutras say, "To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss." When you seek nothing, you're on the Path.

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As long as you're enthralled by a lifeless form, you're not free.

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

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

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Reality has no inside, outside, or middle part.

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

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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.

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To go from mortal to Buddha, you have to put an end to karma, nurture your awareness, and accept what life brings.

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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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Not thinking about anything is zen. Once you know this, walking, standing, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is zen. To know that the mind is empty is to see the buddha.... Using the mind to reality is delusion. Not using the mind to look for reality is awareness. Freeing oneself from words is liberation.

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All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.

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

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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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Everything sacred, nothing sacred.

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