Bodhidharma Quotes About Evil

• 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.

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  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.105, Macmillan

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

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

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• Neither gods nor men can foresee when an evil deed will bear its fruit.

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• According to the Sutras, evil deeds result in hardships and good deeds result in blessings.

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  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.45, Macmillan

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• The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.

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• Still others commit all sorts of evil deeds, claiming karma doesn't exist. They erroneously maintain that since everything is empty, committing evil isn't wrong. Such persons fall into a hell of endless darkness with no hope of release. Those who are wise hold no such conception.

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  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.19, Macmillan

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