Bodhidharma Quotes, Eye Quotes, Mind Quotes

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

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Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.

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Those who worship don't know, and those who know don't worship.

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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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Reality has no inside, outside, or middle part.

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

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Freeing oneself from words is liberation.

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

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If you use your mind to study reality, you won't understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you'll understand both.

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To have a body is to suffer.

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

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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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To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.

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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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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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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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