Bodhidharma Quotes, Reality Quotes

Reality has no inside, outside, or middle part.

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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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Our true buddha-nature has no shape. And the dust of affliction has no form.

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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 of karma, a buddha transforms it. Heaven and hell are nothing to him. But the awareness of a mortal is dim compared to that of a buddha, who penetrates everything, inside and out.

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

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And as long as you're subject to birth and death, you'll never attain enlightenment.

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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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Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.

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As long as you're enthralled by a lifeless form, you're not free.

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Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.

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Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.

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I do not need any writing, since I transmit teaching beyond words and ideas.

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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 awareness. Doctrines are only for pointing to the mind. Once you see your mind, why pay attention to doctrines?

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Neither gods nor men can foresee when an evil deed will bear its fruit.

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When we're deluded there's a world to escape. When we're aware, there's nothing to escape.

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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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Everything good and bad comes from your own mind. To find something beyond the mind is impossible.

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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 without using the mind.

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To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.

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Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will.

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