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Bodhidharma, also known as Daruma, is one of the founders of Chan Buddhism (Zen). He is believed to be from South India and is venerated as the 'First Patriarch of Chan in the East'. His life story is largely mythologized, and his exact birth and death dates are unknown.

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“The Buddha is your real body, your original mind. This mind has no form or characteristics, no cause or effect, no tendons or bones. It's like space. You can't hold it. It's not the mind of materialists or nihilists. If you don't see your own miraculously aware nature, you'll never find a Buddha, even if you break your body into atoms.”

Ifs Mind Real Wisdom Body Form Causes Understanding Space Break Effects Originals Bones Your Body Characteristics Atoms Nihilist

Book:The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

Source: The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

“Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.”

Mean Real Self Humility Worship Delusion Reverence Humbling Real Self Self Delusion Worship You Real Worship

Book:The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

Source: The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

“Worship means reverence and humility. It means revering your real self and humbling delusions. If you can wipe out evil desires and harbor good thoughts, even if nothing shows, it's worship. Such form is its real form.”

Ifs Mean Real Self Shows Form Desire Evil Humility Worship Delusion Reverence Wipe Harbors Good Thoughts Humbling Real Self

Book:The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

Source: The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

“You can't know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.”

Knows Mind Long Real Deceiving Hype Deceiving Yourself

Book:The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

Source: The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

“Whoever knows that the mind is a fiction and devoid of anything real knows that his own mind neither exists nor doesn't exist.”

Knows Mind Real Fiction Uprising

Book:The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

Source: The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

“Whoever realizes that the six senses aren't real, that the five aggregates are fictions, that no such things can be located anywhere in the body, understands the language of Buddhas.”

Real Body Language Realizing Fiction Five Six Senses

Author:Bodhidharma

“The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.”

Mind Real Body Originals

Book:The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

Source: The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

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