Bodhidharma Quotes
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Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
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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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Whoever realizes that the six senses aren't real, that the five aggregates are fictions, that no such things can be located anywhere in the body, understands the language of Buddhas.
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Neither gods nor men can foresee when an evil deed will bear its fruit.
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The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.
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All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
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Your nature is the Buddha.
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People of this world are deluded. They're always longing for something - always, in a word, seeking.
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And as long as you're subject to birth and death, you'll never attain enlightenment.
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Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.
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You can't know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.
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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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Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.
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Buddhas don't practice nonsense.
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To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.
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The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.
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Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.
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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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A Buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.
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As mortals, we're ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.
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Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.
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Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.
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If we should be blessed by some great reward, such as fame or fortune, it's the fruit of a seed planted by us in the past.
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Life and death are important. Don't suffer them in vain.