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Mind Quotes by Bodhidharma
- Whoever knows that the mind is a fiction and devoid of anything real knows that his own mind neither exists nor doesn't exist.
- But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.
- 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…
- Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.
- 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…
- . . . the fools of this world prefer to look for sages far away. They don't believe that the wisdom of their own 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…
- 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…
- Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen.
- 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…
- Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.
- The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.
- If you know that everything comes from the mind, don't become attached. Once attached, you're unaware. But once you see your own nature, the entire…
- Everything good and bad comes from your own mind. To find something beyond the mind is impossible.
- Externally keep yourself away from all relationships, and internally have no pantings in your heart; when your mind is like unto a straight-standing wall, you…
- If you see your nature, you don't need to read sutras or invoke buddhas. Erudition and knowledge are not only useless but also cloud your…
- 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…
- Without the mind there is no Buddha. Without the Buddha there's no mind.
- The mind's capacity is limitless, and its manifestations are inexhaustible. Seeing forms with your eyes, hearing sounds with your ears, smelling odors with your nose,…
- You can't know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.
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- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle