“A buddha is an idle person. He doesn't run around after fortune and fame.” — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you'll never see that your own mind is the Buddha. — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
Trying to find a buddha or enlightenment is like trying to grab space. — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either. — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
Our true buddha-nature has no shape. And the dust of affliction has no form. — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
Without the mind there is no Buddha. Without the Buddha there's no mind. — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
The Buddha is your real body, your original mind. This mind has no form or characteristics, no cause or effect, no tendons… — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
To find Buddha, you have to see your nature. Whoever sees his nature is a Buddha. If you don't see your nature,… — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
A buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad. Such is his power that karma can't hold him. No… — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
And the Buddha is the person who's free: free of plans, free of cares. — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
Unless you see your nature, all this talk about cause & effect is nonsense. Buddhas don't practice nonsense. — Bodhidharma Copy Share
If you see your nature, you don't need to read sutras or invoke buddhas. Erudition and knowledge are not only useless but also cloud… — Bodhidharma Copy Share
People who don't see their own nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are liars and fools. — Bodhidharma Copy Share
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… — Bodhidharma Copy Share
If you use your mind to study reality, you won't understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind,… — Bodhidharma Copy Share
Many roads lead to the Path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice. — Bodhidharma Copy Share
All Buddhas preach emptiness. Why? Because they wish to crush the concrete ideas of the students. If a student even clings to an idea… — Bodhidharma Copy Share
Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen. — Bodhidharma Copy Share
When you don't understand, you depend on reality. When you do understand, reality depends on you. — Bodhidharma Copy Share
The Way is basically perfect. It doesn't require perfecting. The Way has no form or sound. It's subtle and hard to perceive. It's like… — Bodhidharma Copy Share
