Bodhidharma Quotes
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Neither gods nor men can foresee when an evil deed will bear its fruit.
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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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Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
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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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Buddhas don't practice nonsense.
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And as long as you're subject to birth and death, you'll never attain enlightenment.
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To have a body is to suffer.
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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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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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Life and death are important. Don't suffer them in vain.
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To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.
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Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.
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Not creating delusions is enlightenment.
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Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.
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Many roads lead to the path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.
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A Buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.
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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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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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The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.