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But people of the deepest understanding look within, distracted by nothing. Since a clear mind is the Buddha, they attain the understanding of a Buddha without using the mind.

~ Bodhidharma

Bodhidharma Buddhism Enlightenment Meditation Mind Spirituality Zen

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

~ Bodhidharma

Bodhidharma Buddhism Enlightenment Mind Zen

A Buddha doesn’t observe precepts. A Buddha doesn’t do good or evil. A Buddha isn’t energetic or lazy. A Buddha is someone who does nothing, someone who can’t even focus his mind on a Buddha. A Buddha isn’t a Buddha. Don’t think about Buddhas.

~ Bodhidharma

Bodhidharma Buddha Buddhism Mind Zen

Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.

~ Bodhidharma

Bodhidharma Awareness Body Mind

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.

~ Bodhidharma

Bodhidharma Mind Reality

Freeing oneself from words is liberation.

~ Bodhidharma

Bodhidharma Free Liberation Words

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.

~ Bodhidharma

Bodhidharma Fame Fortune Inspirational Motivational Past Truth

Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.

~ Bodhidharma

Bodhidharma Ignorance Wisdom

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

~ Bodhidharma

Bodhidharma Bad Buddha Good

To go from mortal to Buddha, you have to put an end to karma, nurture your awareness, and accept what life brings.

~ Bodhidharma

Bodhidharma Awareness Buddha Life

People of this world are deluded. They’re always longing for something-always, in a word, seeking. But the wise wake up. They choose reason over custom. They fix their minds on the sublime and let their bodies change with the seasons. All phenomena are empty. They contain nothing worth desiring.

~ Bodhidharma

Bodhidharma Bodhidharma Zen

The mind is the root from which all things grow if you can understand the mind, everything else is included. It’s like the root of a tree. All a tree’s fruit and flowers, branches and leaves depend on its root. If you nourish its root, a tree multiplies. If you cut its root, it dies. Those who understand the mind reach enlightenment with minimal effort.

~ Bodhidharma

Bodhidharma Bodhidharma Zen

But deluded people don't realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside.

~ Bodhidharma

Bodhidharma Buddha External Internal

All know the way few actually walk it.

~ Bodhidharma

Bodhidharma Women S Movement

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

~ Bodhidharma

Bodhidharma Success Mind Depend

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

~ Bodhidharma

Bodhidharma Nature Mind Our

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

~ Bodhidharma

Bodhidharma Help Person Without

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

~ Bodhidharma

Bodhidharma Life Important

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

~ Bodhidharma

Bodhidharma Self Humility Real

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

~ Bodhidharma

Bodhidharma Nature Time People

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

~ Bodhidharma

Bodhidharma Greed Mind Three
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