Bodhidharma's Quotes

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

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But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.

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A Buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.

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

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

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Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.

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Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher's help.

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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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The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.

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

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People who don't see their nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are lairs and fools.

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