Bodhidharma
Bodhidharma
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. According to Chinese legend, he also began the physical training of the monks of Shaolin Monastery that led to the creation of Shaolin Kung Fu. In Japan, he is known as Daruma...
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mind
The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.
mind looks use
If you use your mind to look for a Buddha, you won't see the Buddha.
success mind conditions
But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.
understanding mind vision
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.
mind impossible good-and-bad
Everything good and bad comes from your own mind. To find something beyond the mind is impossible.
roots mind grows
The mind is the root from which all things grow. If you can understand the mind, everything else is included.
people mind realizing
But deluded people don't realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside.
nature clouds mind
If you see your nature, you don't need to read sutras or invoke buddhas. Erudition and knowledge are not only useless but also cloud your awareness. Doctrines are only for pointing to the mind. Once you see your mind, why pay attention to doctrines?
mind language moments
At every moment where language can't go, that's your mind.
mind
The mind is always present. You just don't see it.
eye mind odor
The mind's capacity is limitless, and its manifestations are inexhaustible. Seeing forms with your eyes, hearing sounds with your ears, smelling odors with your nose, tasting flavors with your tongue, every movement or state is all your mind.
lying thinking mind
Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen.
space enlightenment trying
Trying to find a buddha or enlightenment is like trying to grab space.
karma wisdom memories
To find Buddha, you have to see your nature. Whoever sees his nature is a Buddha. If you don't see your nature, invoking buddhas, reciting sutras, making offerings, and keeping precepts are all useless. Invoking buddhas results in good karma, reciting sutras results in a good memory, keeping precepts results in good rebirth, and making offerings results in future blessings-but no Buddha.