Bodhidharma Quotes - Page 4

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• As long as you're enthralled by a lifeless form, you're not free.

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  Long, Form, Lifeless

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.11, Macmillan

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• The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.

  Bodhidharma

  Mind

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.11, Macmillan

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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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  Real, Fiction, Body

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• Buddhas don't practice nonsense.

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  Practice, Nonsense

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.17, Macmillan

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• Reality has no inside, outside, or middle part.

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  Reality, Middle

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• But people of the deepest understanding look within, distracted by nothing. Since a clear mind is the Buddha, they attain the understanding of a Buddha without using the mind.

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  People, Meditation, Understanding

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.71, Macmillan

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• But this mind isn't somewhere outside the material body of the four elements. Without this mind we can't move. The body has no awareness. Like a plant or a stone, the body has no nature. So how does it move? It's the mind that moves.

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  Moving, Four Elements, Mind

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.43, Macmillan

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• To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.

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  Letting Go, Giving Up, Regret

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.49, Macmillan

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• Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher's help.

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  Teacher, Retirement, Teaching

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.15, Macmillan

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• When your mind doesn't stir inside, the world doesn't arise outside. When the world and the mind are both transparent, this is true vision. And such understanding is true understanding.

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  Understanding, Mind, Vision

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.55, Macmillan

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• The Way is basically perfect. It doesn't require perfecting.

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  Perfect, Way

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.29, Macmillan

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• To have a body is to suffer.

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  Suffering, Body

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.5, Macmillan

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• And the Buddha is the person who's free: free of plans, free of cares.

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  Care, Plans, Persons

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.13, Macmillan

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• Regardless of what we do, our karma has no hold on us.

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  Karma, Holding On

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.41, Macmillan

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• Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.

  Bodhidharma

  Mortals

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• Worship means reverence and humility. It means revering your real self and humbling delusions. If you can wipe out evil desires and harbor good thoughts, even if nothing shows, it's worship. Such form is its real form.

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  Real, Mean, Humility

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.105, Macmillan

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• Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.

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  Wind, Joy, Path

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.5, Macmillan

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• If you use your mind to look for a Buddha, you won't see the Buddha.

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  Mind, Looks, Use

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.11, Macmillan

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• Without the mind there is no Buddha. Without the Buddha there's no mind.

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  Mind

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.67, Macmillan

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• If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.

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  Land, Mind, Pure

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.89, Macmillan

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• Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will.

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  Moving, Birth, Disappear

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.35, Macmillan

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• Unless you see your nature, all this talk about cause & effect is nonsense. Buddhas don't practice nonsense.

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  Nature, Practice, Causes

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.17, North Point Press

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• But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.

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  Success, Mind, Depends

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.5, Macmillan

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• And as long as you're subject to birth and death, you'll never attain enlightenment.

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  Long, Enlightenment, Birth

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.17, Macmillan

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• Our true buddha-nature has no shape. And the dust of affliction has no form.

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  Dust, Affliction, Shapes

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.109, Macmillan

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