Words are illusions.
More Quotes from Bodhidharma:
When delusions are absent, the mind is the land of buddhas. When delusions are present, the mind is hell. Mortals create delusions. And by using the mind to give birth to mind they always find themselves in hell. Bodhisattvas see through delusions. And by not using the mind to give birth to mind they always find themselves in the land of buddhas. If you don't use your mind to create mind, every state of mind is empty and every thought is still. You go from one buddha-land to another. If you use your mind to create mind, every state of mind is disturbed and every thought is in motion. You go from one hell to the next.Bodhidharma
Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.
Bodhidharma
The mind is the root from which all things grow if you can understand the mind, everything else is included.
Bodhidharma
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.
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The Way is basically perfect. It doesn't require perfecting.
Bodhidharma
When we're deluded there's a world to escape. When we're aware, there's nothing to escape.
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