Bodhidharma Quotes, Doctrine Quotes, Way Quotes

The ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They're not the Way.

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Many roads lead to the Path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.

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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 an idea of emptiness, he betrays all Buddhas.

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Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.

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

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Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.

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

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Everything sacred, nothing sacred.

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Leaving behind the false, return to the true: make no discriminations between self and others. In contemplation, one's mind should be stable and unmoving, like a wall.

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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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The Way is basically perfect. It doesn't require perfecting.

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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

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

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To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.

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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 sutras, making offerings, and keeping precepts are all useless. Invoking buddhas results in good karma, reciting sutras results in a good memory, keeping precepts results in good rebirth, and making offerings results in future blessings-but no Buddha.

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The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.

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The awareness of mortals falls short. As long as they're attached to appearances, they're unaware that their minds are empty. And by mistakenly clinging to the appearance of things they lose the Way.

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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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At every moment where language can't go, that's your mind.

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