Quotes by Bodhidharma

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

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  And as long as you're subject to birth and death, you'll never attain enlightenment.
  Source: The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

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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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  Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.
  Source: The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

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  Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will.
  Source: The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

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  But deluded people don't realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside.
  Source: The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

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  But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.
  Source: The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

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  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.

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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.
  Source: The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

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

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  Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher's help.
  Source: The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

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  People of this world are deluded. They're always longing for something - always, in a word, seeking.
  Source: The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

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  People who don't see their nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are lairs and fools.
  Source: The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

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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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  The mind is the root from which all things grow if you can understand the mind, everything else is included.
  Source: The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma