Bodhidharma Quotes, Conditions Quotes

As mortals, we're ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.

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. . . the fools of this world prefer to look for sages far away. They don't believe that the wisdom of their own mind is the sage . . . the sutras say, "Mind is the teaching." But people of no understanding don't believe in their own mind or that by understanding this teaching they can become a sage. They prefer to look for distant knowledge and long for things in space, buddha-images, light, incense, and colors. They fall prey to falsehood and lose their minds to insanity.

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Freeing oneself from words is liberation.

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The Way is basically perfect. It doesn't require perfecting. The Way has no form or sound. It's subtle and hard to perceive. It's like when you drink water: you know how hot or cold it is, but you can't tell others.

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

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

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The mind is always present. You just don't see it.

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All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.

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Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.

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Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.

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

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Not creating delusions is enlightenment.

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Someone who seeks the Way doesn't look beyond himself.

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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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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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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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To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.

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

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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 straight-standing wall, you may enter into the Path.

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