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Bodhidharma
Indian
Leader
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And the Buddha is the person who's free: free of plans, free of cares.
Bodhidharma,
Indian
Leader
Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher's help.
Bodhidharma,
Indian
Leader
#Help
The Way is basically perfect. It doesn't require perfecting.
Bodhidharma,
Indian
Leader
The mind is the root from which all things grow if you can understand the mind, everything else is included.
Bodhidharma,
Indian
Leader
#Mind
The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.
Bodhidharma,
Indian
Leader
#Mind
The mind is always present. You just don't see it.
Bodhidharma,
Indian
Leader
#Present
#Mind
The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.
Bodhidharma,
Indian
Leader
#Anger
#Mind
#Infinite
#Greed
#Delusion
The essence of the Way is detachment.
Bodhidharma,
Indian
Leader
Regardless of what we do, our karma has no hold on us.
Bodhidharma,
Indian
Leader
#Karma
The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.
Bodhidharma,
Indian
Leader
#Mind
#Body
People of this world are deluded. They're always longing for something - always, in a word, seeking.
Bodhidharma,
Indian
Leader
#People
#World
#Word
#Longing
Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.
Bodhidharma,
Indian
Leader
#Mind
#Nature
Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.
Bodhidharma,
Indian
Leader
#Wind
#Joy
People who don't see their nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are lairs and fools.
Bodhidharma,
Indian
Leader
#Time
#People
#Practice
#Nature
#Fools
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.
Bodhidharma,
Indian
Leader
#Reason
#Living
#Nature
#Delusion
To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.
Bodhidharma,
Indian
Leader
#Nature
To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.
Bodhidharma,
Indian
Leader
#Regret
#Charity
To go from mortal to Buddha, you have to put an end to karma, nurture your awareness, and accept what life brings.
Bodhidharma,
Indian
Leader
#Life
#End
#Awareness
#Karma
To have a body is to suffer.
Bodhidharma,
Indian
Leader
#Body
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.
Bodhidharma,
Indian
Leader
#Nothing
#Understanding
Whoever knows that the mind is a fiction and devoid of anything real knows that his own mind neither exists nor doesn't exist.
Bodhidharma,
Indian
Leader
#Mind
#Fiction
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.
Bodhidharma,
Indian
Leader
#Language
#Body
#Senses
Words are illusions.
Bodhidharma,
Indian
Leader
#Words
Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.
Bodhidharma,
Indian
Leader
#Self
#Humility
#Worship
You can't know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.
Bodhidharma,
Indian
Leader
#Mind
Your nature is the Buddha.
Bodhidharma,
Indian
Leader
#Nature
Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.
Bodhidharma,
Indian
Leader
#Nature
#Sex
Your mind is nirvana.
Bodhidharma,
Indian
Leader
#Mind
As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you'll never see that your own mind is the Buddha.
Bodhidharma,
Indian
Leader
#Mind
Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.
Bodhidharma,
Indian
Leader
#Suffering
#Existence
A Buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.
Bodhidharma,
Indian
Leader
#Freedom
#Fortune
According to the Sutras, evil deeds result in hardships and good deeds result in blessings.
Bodhidharma,
Indian
Leader
#Result
#Evil
#Blessings
#Deeds
All phenomena are empty.
Bodhidharma,
Indian
Leader
All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
Bodhidharma,
Indian
Leader
#Experience
#Suffering
#Joy
As long as you're enthralled by a lifeless form, you're not free.
Bodhidharma,
Indian
Leader
As mortals, we're ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.
Bodhidharma,
Indian
Leader
Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.
Bodhidharma,
Indian
Leader
#Evil
#Mind
#Body
#Awareness
Buddhas don't practice nonsense.
Bodhidharma,
Indian
Leader
#Practice
#Nonsense
Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will.
Bodhidharma,
Indian
Leader
#Will
#Death
But deluded people don't realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside.
Bodhidharma,
Indian
Leader
#People
#Mind
But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.
Bodhidharma,
Indian
Leader
#Success
#Failure
#Mind
Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
Bodhidharma,
Indian
Leader
#Words
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.
Bodhidharma,
Indian
Leader
#Past
#Fame
#Fortune
#Reward
If you use your mind to look for a Buddha, you won't see the Buddha.
Bodhidharma,
Indian
Leader
#Mind
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.
Bodhidharma,
Indian
Leader
#Study
#Mind
#Reality
If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.
Bodhidharma,
Indian
Leader
#Mind
Life and death are important. Don't suffer them in vain.
Bodhidharma,
Indian
Leader
#Life
#Death
Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.
Bodhidharma,
Indian
Leader
#Ignorance
#Wisdom
Many roads lead to the path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.
Bodhidharma,
Indian
Leader
#Practice
#Reason
And as long as you're subject to birth and death, you'll never attain enlightenment.
Bodhidharma,
Indian
Leader
#Death
The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.
Bodhidharma,
Indian
Leader
#Truth
Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.
Bodhidharma,
Indian
Leader
Neither gods nor men can foresee when an evil deed will bear its fruit.
Bodhidharma,
Indian
Leader
#Will
#Evil
#Men
#Gods
#Deed
Not creating delusions is enlightenment.
Bodhidharma,
Indian
Leader
Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.
Bodhidharma,
Indian
Leader
#Delusion
#Mortality
#Awareness