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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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.
dust affliction shapes
Our true buddha-nature has no shape. And the dust of affliction has no form.
success mind conditions
But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.
suffering doe body
To have a body is to suffer. Does anyone with a body know peace? Those who understand this detach themselves from all that exists and stop imagining or seeking anything. The sutras say, "To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss." When you seek nothing, you're on the Path.
karma goes-around-comes-around awareness
To go from mortal to Buddha, you have to put an end to karma, nurture your awareness, and accept what life brings.
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.
suffering body
To have a body is to suffer.
truth break-through understanding
If you know that everything comes from the mind, don't become attached. Once attached, you're unaware. But once you see your own nature, the entire Canon becomes so much prose. It's thousands of sutras and shastras only amount to a clear mind. Understanding comes in midsentence. What good are doctrines? The ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They're not the Way. The Way is wordless. Words are illusions. . . . Don't cling to appearances, and you'll break through all barriers. . . .
sex
Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.
wind joy path
Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.
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.
letting-go regret giving-up
To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.
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?