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Zen Master Inspirational Quotes (69)

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Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.
Bodhidharma
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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.
Bodhidharma
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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.
Bodhidharma
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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.
Bodhidharma
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Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.
Bodhidharma
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Someone who seeks the Way doesn't look beyond himself.
Bodhidharma
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Externally keep yourself away from all relationships, and internally have no pantings in your heart when your mind is like unto a straight-standing wall, you may enter into the Path.
Bodhidharma
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According to the Sutras, evil deeds result in hardships and good deeds result in blessings.
Bodhidharma
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The mind is always present. You just don't see it.
Bodhidharma
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The essence of the Way is detachment.
Bodhidharma
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The Way is basically perfect. It doesn't require perfecting.
Bodhidharma
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Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.
Bodhidharma
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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.
Bodhidharma
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The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.
Bodhidharma
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Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.
Bodhidharma
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Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.
Bodhidharma
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Worship means reverence and humility. It means revering your real self and humbling delusions. If you can wipe out evil desires and harbor good thoughts, even if nothing shows, it's worship. Such form is its real form.
Bodhidharma
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Details are all there are.
Taizan Maezumi
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Light and dark are relative to one another like forward and backward steps.
Shitou Xiqian
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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.
Bodhidharma
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Those who worship don't know, and those who know don't worship.
Bodhidharma
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Unless you see your nature, all this talk about cause & effect is nonsense. Buddhas don't practice nonsense.
Bodhidharma
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But deluded people don't realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside.
Bodhidharma
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Just live that life. It doesn't matter whether it is life or hell, life of the hungry ghost, life of the animal, it's okay just live that life, see. And as a matter of fact no other way. Where you stand, where you are, that's what your life is right there, regardless of how painful it is or how enjoyable it is. That's what it is.
Taizan Maezumi
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