Bodhidharma Quotes
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Neither gods nor men can foresee when an evil deed will bear its fruit.
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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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Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
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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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Buddhas don't practice nonsense.
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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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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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Life and death are important. Don't suffer them in vain.
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Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.
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Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.
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Many roads lead to the path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.
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To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.
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Not creating delusions is enlightenment.
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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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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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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 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.