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• You can't know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.

  Bodhidharma

  Real, Hype, Long

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.11, Macmillan

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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?

  Bodhidharma

  Nature, Clouds, Mind

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.35, Macmillan

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• If you know that everything comes from the mind, don't become attached. Once attached, you're unaware. But once you see your own nature, the entire Canon becomes so much prose. It's thousands of sutras and shastras only amount to a clear mind. Understanding comes in midsentence. What good are doctrines? The ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They're not the Way. The Way is wordless. Words are illusions. . . . Don't cling to appearances, and you'll break through all barriers. . . .

  Bodhidharma

  Truth, Break Through, Understanding

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

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• People of this world are deluded. They're always longing for something - always, in a word, seeking.

  Bodhidharma

  People, World, Longing

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

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• The essence of the Way is detachment.

  Bodhidharma

  Essence, Way, Detachment

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• All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.

  Bodhidharma

  Joy, Suffering, Depends

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

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• Still others commit all sorts of evil deeds, claiming karma doesn't exist. They erroneously maintain that since everything is empty, committing evil isn't wrong. Such persons fall into a hell of endless darkness with no hope of release. Those who are wise hold no such conception.

  Bodhidharma

  Karma, Wise, Wisdom

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.19, Macmillan

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

  Bodhidharma

  Life, Nature, Mind

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.25, Macmillan

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• 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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  Doubt, Mind, Path

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.33, Macmillan

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• Trying to find a buddha or enlightenment is like trying to grab space.

  Bodhidharma

  Space, Enlightenment, Trying

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.9, Macmillan

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• An Awakened person is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.

  Bodhidharma

  Meditation, Fortune, Dharma

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• The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.

  Bodhidharma

  Dharma, Pure

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.7, Macmillan

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• This one life has no form and is empty by nature. If you become attached by any form, you should reject it. If you see an ego, a soul, a birth, or a death, reject them all.

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  Soul, Ego, Birth

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• Many roads lead to the Path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.

  Bodhidharma

  Wisdom, Practice, Two

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.3, Macmillan

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

  Bodhidharma

  Looks, Way, Tao

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.59, Macmillan

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• The essence of the Way is detachment. And the goal of those who practice is freedom from appearances.

  Bodhidharma

  Attachment, Essence, Practice

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.47, Macmillan

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• Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.

  Bodhidharma

  Suffering, Way, Reaching

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

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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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  Believe, Mean, Essence

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.3, Macmillan

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• The true Way is sublime. It can't be expressed in language. Of what use are scriptures? But someone who sees his own nature finds the Way, even if he can't read a word.

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  Sublime, Use, Way

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

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

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  Men, Evil, Deeds

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

  Bodhidharma

  Teaching, Writing, Ideas

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• Buddhas don't practice nonsense.

  Bodhidharma

  Practice, Nonsense

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.17, Macmillan

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• According to the Sutras, evil deeds result in hardships and good deeds result in blessings.

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  Blessing, Kind Deeds, Evil

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.45, Macmillan

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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.

  Bodhidharma

  Fall, Long, Mind

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• The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.

  Bodhidharma

  Mind

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.11, Macmillan

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