‘Don’t use Buddha to worship a Buddha.’
Bodhidharma
‘Don’t use Buddha to worship a Buddha.’
Bodhidharma
As for the hopes and fears for the future, and the regrets, they are all part of a framing of our lives into a fixed dance, so to speak.
‘Mind through endless kalpas without beginning, has never varied. It has never lived or died, appeared or disappeared, increased or decreased.’
Bodhidharma
‘Don’t use Buddha to worship a Buddha.’
Bodhidharma
When I just rest
within empty lucidity,
the false cavern of all things of samsara and nirvana implodes,
and everything dawns as the ornamentation of ultimate reality.
‘Buddhas vary, but none leave their own mind. The mind’s capacity is limitless, and its manifestations are inexhaustible.’
Bodhidharma
An Inner Search, an interview with Diana St Ruth. In English with Italian subtitles.
We suffer, we are stuck in some kind of pain, mostly mental — mental torment, mental pain.