Bodhidharma Quotes, Doubt Quotes, Mind Quotes

But when you first embark on the Path, your awareness won't be focused. You're likely to see all sorts of strange, dreamlike scenes. But you shouldn't doubt that all such scenes come from your own mind and nowhere else.

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

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

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The mind is the root from which all things grow. If you can understand the mind, everything else is included.

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Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.

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Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.

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

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

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The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.

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When your mind doesn't stir inside, the world doesn't arise outside. When the world and the mind are both transparent, this is true vision. And such understanding is true understanding.

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

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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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Freeing oneself from words is liberation.

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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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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, tasting flavors with your tongue, every movement or state is all your mind.

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

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

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