#buddha

The Buddha-nature which is ours from the very beginning is like the sun which emerges from the clouds, or like a mirror which, when rubbed, regains its original purity and clarity. (217) ↗

— Edward Conze

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To go from mortal to Buddha, you have to put an end to karma, nurture your awareness, and accept what life brings. ↗

— Bodhidharma

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A Buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad. ↗

— Bodhidharma

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As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you'll never see that your own mind is the Buddha. ↗

— Bodhidharma

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Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either. ↗

— Bodhidharma

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But deluded people don't realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside. ↗

— Bodhidharma

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Buddhas don't practice nonsense. ↗

— Bodhidharma

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The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind. ↗

— Bodhidharma

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I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong. ↗

— John Lennon

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The inner world is very potent for me - I don't ascribe to any God or Jesus or Buddha - I just have a sense of it and revere it along with the natural world and human consciousness. ↗

— Annie Lennox

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