Bodhidharma Quotes
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Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.
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Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.
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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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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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People who don't see their nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are lairs and fools.
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Many roads lead to the path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.
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The Way is basically perfect. It doesn't require perfecting.
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To enter by reason means to realize the essence through instruction and to believe that all living things share the same true nature, which isn't apparent because it's shrouded by sensation and delusion.
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But deluded people don't realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside.
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Regardless of what we do, our karma has no hold on us.
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As long as you're enthralled by a lifeless form, you're not free.
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If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.
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Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher's help.
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And the Buddha is the person who's free: free of plans, free of cares.
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Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.
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Your mind is nirvana.
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According to the Sutras, evil deeds result in hardships and good deeds result in blessings.
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All phenomena are empty.
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Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will.
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As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you'll never see that your own mind is the Buddha.
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The mind is always present. You just don't see it.
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But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.
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Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.