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Buddha Quotes by Bodhidharma
- 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…
- To go from mortal to Buddha, you have to put an end to karma, nurture your awareness, and accept what life brings.
- Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.
- . . . the fools of this world prefer to look for sages far away. They don't believe that the wisdom of their own mind…
- Not thinking about anything is zen. Once you know this, walking, standing, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is zen. To know that the…
- To find Buddha, you have to see your nature. Whoever sees his nature is a Buddha. If you don't see your nature, invoking buddhas, reciting…
- The Buddha is your real body, your original mind. This mind has no form or characteristics, no cause or effect, no tendons or bones. It's…
- A buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad. Such is his power that karma can't hold him. No matter what kind…
- Without the mind there is no Buddha. Without the Buddha there's no mind.
- The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.
- To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.
- Your nature is the Buddha.
- A Buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.
- The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.
- If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.
- And the Buddha is the person who's free: free of plans, free of cares.
- As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you'll never see that your own mind is the Buddha.
- But deluded people don't realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside.
- If you use your mind to look for a Buddha, you won't see the Buddha.
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