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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Buddhas don't practice nonsense.
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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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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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Many roads lead to the path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.
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Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.
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Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.
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You can't know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.
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To enter by reason means to realize the essence through instruction and to believe that all living things share the same true nature, which isn't apparent because it's shrouded by sensation and delusion.
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Life and death are important. Don't suffer them in vain.
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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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Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.
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Not creating delusions is enlightenment.
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To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.
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A Buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.
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Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.
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Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.