Bodhidharma Quotes

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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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  Reality, Depends

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.57, Macmillan

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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. . . . The mind and the world are opposites, and vision arises where they meet. 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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  Reality, Opposites, Understanding

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• I never lost or fail, not yet conquered. If I fall seven times, I get up eight

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  Fall, Eight, Failing

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• Once you stop clinging and let things be, you'll be free, even of birth and death. You'll transform everything.

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  Attachment, Transformation, Birth

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.41, Macmillan

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• In order to see a fish you must watch the water

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  Order, Water, Watches

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• All know the way, but few actually walk it.

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  Buddhism, Inspire, Way

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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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  Somewhere Else, Long, Mind

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

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  Inspiring, Worship, Knows

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• To have a body is to suffer. Does anyone with a body know peace? Those who understand this detach themselves from all that exists and stop imagining or seeking anything. The sutras say, "To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss." When you seek nothing, you're on the Path.

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  Peace, Suffering, Doe

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.5, North Point Press

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

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  Doctrine, Way, Tao

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.31, Macmillan

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

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  Suffering, Bliss

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.5, Macmillan

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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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  Anger, Passion, Ignorant Masses

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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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  Roots, Mind, Grows

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.77, Macmillan

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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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  Believe, Fall, Teaching

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• Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen.

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  Lying, Thinking, Mind

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.49, Macmillan

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• Whoever knows that the mind is a fiction and devoid of anything real knows that his own mind neither exists nor doesn't exist.

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  Real, Uprising, Mind

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.53, Macmillan

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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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  Reality, Mind, Use

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.55, Macmillan

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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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  Eye, Mind, Sound

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.23, Macmillan

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• The Way is basically perfect. It doesn't require perfecting. The Way has no form or sound. It's subtle and hard to perceive. It's like when you drink water: you know how hot or cold it is, but you can't tell others.

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  Wisdom, Perfect, Water

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.29, Macmillan

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• Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.

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  Ignorance, Stupidity, Engaging

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.51, Macmillan

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• Not thinking about anything is zen. Once you know this, walking, standing, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is zen. To know that the mind is empty is to see the buddha.... Using the mind to reality is delusion. Not using the mind to look for reality is awareness. Freeing oneself from words is liberation.

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  Lying, Reality, Thinking

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.49, Macmillan

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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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  World, Deluded

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.51, Macmillan

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• When mortals are alive, they worry about death. When they're full, they worry about hunger. Theirs is the Great Uncertainty. But sages don't consider the past. And they don't worry about the future. Nor do they cling to the present. And from moment to moment they follow the Way.

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  Past, Worry, Alive

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.75, Macmillan

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

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  Real, Mean, Humility

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.105, Macmillan

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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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  Mind, Impossible, Good And Bad

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.77, Macmillan

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