Here, we’ve compiled a list of the best Bodhidharma Quotes. Let’s look at these pieces of wisdom. We definitely have something to learn from them!
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As long as you’re enthralled by a lifeless form, you’re not free.
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Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will.
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You can’t know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.
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Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.
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To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.
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Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.
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Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.
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All phenomena are empty.
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To have a body is to suffer.
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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.
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As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you’ll never see that your own mind is the Buddha.
12
Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.
13
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.
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People who don’t see their nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are lairs and fools.
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The Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting.
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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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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.
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The mind is always present. You just don’t see it.
19
Buddhas don’t practice nonsense.
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The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.
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The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.
22
All phenomena are empty.
23
Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.
24
Life and death are important. Don’t suffer them in vain.
25
Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.
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People of this world are deluded. They’re always longing for something – always, in a word, seeking.
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Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.
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Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
29
The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.
30
As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you’ll never see that your own mind is the Buddha.
31
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.
32
Your mind is nirvana.
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The Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting.
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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.
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Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.
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Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.
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Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.
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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 exist.
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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.
40
To have a body is to suffer.
41
Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.
42
People of this world are deluded. They’re always longing for something – always, in a word, seeking.
43
As mortals, we’re ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.
44
Whoever knows that the mind is a fiction and devoid of anything real knows that his own mind neither exists nor doesn’t exist.
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If you use your mind to look for a Buddha, you won’t see the Buddha.
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To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.
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All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
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A Buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.
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But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.
50
According to the Sutras, evil deeds result in hardships and good deeds result in blessings.
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And the Buddha is the person who’s free: free of plans, free of cares.
52
To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.
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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.
54
Not creating delusions is enlightenment.
55
The essence of the Way is detachment.
