Bodhidharma Quotes about Reality

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When you don't understand, you depend on reality. When you do understand, reality depends on you.

When you don't understand, you depend on reality. When you do understand, reality depends on you.

Bodhidharma

Reality, Depends

Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.57, Macmillan

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. . . . The mind and the world are opposites, and vision arises where they meet. 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

Reality, Opposites, Understanding

Not thinking about anything is zen. Once you know this, walking, standing, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is zen. To know that the mind is empty is to see the buddha.... Using the mind to reality is delusion. Not using the mind to look for reality is awareness. Freeing oneself from words is liberation.

Bodhidharma

Lying, Reality, Thinking

Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.49, Macmillan

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.

Bodhidharma

Reality, Mind, Use

Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.55, Macmillan

One clings to life although there is nothing to be called life; another clings to death although there is nothing to be called death. In reality, there is nothing to be born; consequently, there is nothing to perish.

Bodhidharma

Reality, Born

Reality has no inside, outside, or middle part.

Bodhidharma

Reality, Middle

Bodhidharma Quotes about Reality

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