Bodhidharma

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

— Bodhidharma

An Awakened person is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.

— Bodhidharma

Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.

— Bodhidharma

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

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

— Bodhidharma

Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.

— Bodhidharma

“Poverty and hardship are created by false thinking.”

— Bodhidharma

A Buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.

— Bodhidharma

Once you stop clinging and let things be, you'll be free, even of birth and death. You'll transform everything.

— Bodhidharma

People who don't see their nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are lairs and fools.

— Bodhidharma

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

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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…

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When you don't understand, you depend on reality. When you do understand, reality depends on you.

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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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To go from mortal to Buddha, you have to put an end to karma, nurture your awareness, and accept what life brings.

— Bodhidharma

The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.

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To have a body is to suffer. Does anyone with a body know peace? Those who understand this detach themselves from all…

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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…

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Still others commit all sorts of evil deeds, claiming karma doesnt exist. They erroneously maintain that since everything is empty, committing evil…

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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…

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If you see your nature, you don't need to read sutras or invoke buddhas. Erudition and knowledge are not only useless but…

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One clings to life although there is nothing to be called life; another clings to death although there is nothing to be…

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People of this world are deluded. They're always longing for something, always, in a word, seeking. But the wise wake up. They…

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Externally keep yourself away from all relationships, and internally have no pantings in your heart; when your mind is like unto a…

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Life and death are important. Don't suffer them in vain.

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

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Neither gods nor men can foresee when an evil deed will bear its fruit.

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The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.

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

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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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Everything good and bad comes from your own mind. To find something beyond the mind is impossible.

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All Buddhas preach emptiness. Why? Because they wish to crush the concrete ideas of the students. If a student even clings to…

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