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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All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
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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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Your nature is the Buddha.
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Buddhas don't practice nonsense.
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To have a body is to suffer.
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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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Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.
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Not creating delusions is enlightenment.
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You can't know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.
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Life and death are important. Don't suffer them in vain.
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Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.
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To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.
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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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A Buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.
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The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.
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Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.
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Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.
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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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If we should be blessed by some great reward, such as fame or fortune, it's the fruit of a seed planted by us in the past.