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


Bodhidharma

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After your death, you will be what you were before your birth.
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Life and death are important. Don't suffer them in vain.
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According to the Sutras, evil deeds result in hardships and good deeds result in blessings.
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Regardless of what we do, our karma has no hold on us.
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Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.
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Buddhas don't practice nonsense.
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Whoever realizes that the six senses aren't real, that the five aggregates are fictions, that no...
BODHIDHARMA
To go from mortal to Buddha, you have to put an end to karma, nurture your awareness, and accept wha...
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A Buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.
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But deluded people don't realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside.
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The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poison...
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Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.
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Many roads lead to the path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.
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As mortals, we're ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.
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As long as you're enthralled by a lifeless form, you're not free.
BODHIDHARMA
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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And the Buddha is the person who's free: free of plans, free of cares.
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And as long as you're subject to birth and death, you'll never attain enlightenment.
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All phenomena are empty.
BODHIDHARMA
All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
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The essence of the Way is detachment.
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Not creating delusions is enlightenment.
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Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.
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People of this world are deluded. They're always longing for something - always, in a word, seek...
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Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
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Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.
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Words are illusions.
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The mind is the root from which all things grow if you can understand the mind, everything else is i...
BODHIDHARMA
As long as you're enthralled by a lifeless form, you're not free.
BODHIDHARMA
If we should be blessed by some great reward, such as fame or fortune, it's the fruit of a seed ...
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The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.
BODHIDHARMA
Every suffering is a seed, because suffering impels us to seek wisdom.
BODHIDHARMA
Your mind is nirvana.
BODHIDHARMA
The Way is basically perfect. It doesn't require perfecting.
BODHIDHARMA
To enter by reason means to realize the essence through instruction and to believe that all living t...
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People who don't see their nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are...
BODHIDHARMA
But deluded people don't realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside.
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