Bodhidharma Quotes About Awareness

• Pero esta mente no está en algún lugar fuera del cuerpo material de los cuatro elementos. Sin esta mente no podemos movernos. El cuerpo no tiene conciencia. Como una planta o una piedra, el cuerpo no tiene naturaleza. Entonces, ¿cómo se mueve? Es la mente la que se mueve.

  Bodhidharma

  Moving, Four Elements, Mind

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.43, Macmillan

• Para pasar de mortal a Buda, hay que acabar con el karma, alimentar la conciencia y aceptar lo que la vida nos depara.

  Bodhidharma

  Life, Karma, Goes Around Comes Around

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.35, Macmillan

• A buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad. Such is his power that karma can't hold him. No matter what kind of karma, a buddha transforms it. Heaven and hell are nothing to him. But the awareness of a mortal is dim compared to that of a buddha, who penetrates everything, inside and out.

  Bodhidharma

  Karma, Heaven, Matter

• 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?

  Bodhidharma

  Nature, Clouds, Mind

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.35, Macmillan

• 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

• Buda significa conciencia, la conciencia del cuerpo y de la mente que impide que surja el mal en ninguno de ellos.

  Bodhidharma

  Mean, Evil, Mind

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.111, Macmillan

• The awareness of mortals falls short. As long as they're attached to appearances, they're unaware that their minds are empty. And by mistakenly clinging to the appearance of things they lose the Way.

  Bodhidharma

  Fall, Long, Mind

• But when you first embark on the Path, your awareness won't be focused. You're likely to see all sorts of strange, dreamlike scenes. But you shouldn't doubt that all such scenes come from your own mind and nowhere else.

  Bodhidharma

  Doubt, Mind, Path

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.33, Macmillan

• Ilusión significa mortalidad. Y conciencia significa Budeidad.

  Bodhidharma

  Mean, Awareness, Mortality

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.51, Macmillan

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