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Bodhidharma [0-0] Indian

Rank: 101
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Bodhidharma was a Buddhist monk who lived during the 5th or 6th century. He is traditionally credited as the transmitter of Chan Buddhism to China, and regarded as its first Chinese patriarch.

Nature, Anger, Brainy, Death, Failure, Imagination, Learning, Religion, Teacher, Wisdom

Quote	Tags	Rank
The mind is the root from which all things grow if you can understand the mind, everything else is included.		101
Many roads lead to the path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.		102
Your mind is nirvana.		103
To go from mortal to Buddha, you have to put an end to karma, nurture your awareness, and accept what life brings.		104
Regardless of what we do, our karma has no hold on us.		105
According to the Sutras, evil deeds result in hardships and good deeds result in blessings.		106
Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.	Wisdom	107
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.	Nature	108
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.		109
You can't know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.		110
If you use your mind to look for a Buddha, you won't see the Buddha.		111
As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you'll never see that your own mind is the Buddha.		112
To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.	Nature	113
Life and death are important. Don't suffer them in vain.	Death	114
Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher's help.	Teacher	115
But deluded people don't realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside.		116
Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.	Nature	117
The essence of the Way is detachment.		118
Freeing oneself from words is liberation.		119
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.	Learning	120
The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.	Anger	121
Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.		122
Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.	Religion	123
But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.	Failure	124
And as long as you're subject to birth and death, you'll never attain enlightenment.		125
People who don't see their nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are lairs and fools.	Imagination	126
The mind is always present. You just don't see it.		201
A Buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.		202
The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.		203
Whoever realizes that the six senses aren't real, that the five aggregates are fictions, that no such things can be located anywhere in the body, understands the language of Buddhas.		204
Not creating delusions is enlightenment.		205
To see nothing is to perceive the Way, and to understand nothing is to know the Dharma, because seeing is neither seeing nor not seeing and because understanding is neither understanding nor not understanding.		206
The Way is basically perfect. It doesn't require perfecting.		207
To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.		208
Neither gods nor men can foresee when an evil deed will bear its fruit.		209
As mortals, we're ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.		210
All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.		211
Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.		212
All phenomena are empty.		213
To have a body is to suffer.		214
The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.		215
The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.		216
As long as you're enthralled by a lifeless form, you're not free.		217
Your nature is the Buddha.		218
And the Buddha is the person who's free: free of plans, free of cares.		219
Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.	Brainy	220
Words are illusions.		221
Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will.		222
Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.		223
Whoever knows that the mind is a fiction and devoid of anything real knows that his own mind neither exists nor doesn't exist.		224
Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.		225
If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.		226
Buddhas don't practice nonsense.		301
People of this world are deluded. They're always longing for something - always, in a word, seeking.		302
Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.		303

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