July 06^th, 2025

Buddhas don’t save buddhas. If you use your mind to look for a buddha, you won’t see the buddha.

As long as you look for a buddha somewhere else, you’ll never see that your own mind is the buddha. And don’t use a buddha to worship a buddha.

And don’t use the mind to invoke a buddha. Buddhas don’t recite sutras. Buddhas don’t keep precepts.

And buddhas don’t break precepts. Buddhas don’t keep or break anything. Buddhas don’t do good or evil.

Bodhidharma (d. 533)