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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Many roads lead to the path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.
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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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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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Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher's help.
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If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.
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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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Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will.
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All phenomena are empty.
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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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Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.
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The essence of the Way is detachment.