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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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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Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.
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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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You can't know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.
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Neither gods nor men can foresee when an evil deed will bear its fruit.
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Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.
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A Buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.
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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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Life and death are important. Don't suffer them in vain.
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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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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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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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Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.
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Not creating delusions is enlightenment.
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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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As mortals, we're ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.
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Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.