Bodhidharma Quotes
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Neither gods nor men can foresee when an evil deed will bear its fruit.
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Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
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To see nothing is to perceive the Way, and to understand nothing is to know the Dharma, because seeing is neither seeing nor not seeing and because understanding is neither understanding nor not understanding.
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The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.
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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.
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All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
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Your nature is the Buddha.
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Buddhas don't practice nonsense.
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And as long as you're subject to birth and death, you'll never attain enlightenment.
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People of this world are deluded. They're always longing for something - always, in a word, seeking.
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To have a body is to suffer.
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Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.
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You can't know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.
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Not creating delusions is enlightenment.
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Life and death are important. Don't suffer them in vain.
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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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To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.
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The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.
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Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.
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A Buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.
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Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.
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Whoever knows that the mind is a fiction and devoid of anything real knows that his own mind neither exists nor doesn't exist.
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Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.
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As mortals, we're ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.