Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will. — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
And as long as you're subject to birth and death, you'll never attain enlightenment. — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
Don't hate life and death or love life and death. Keep your every thought free of delusion, and in life you'll witness… — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
This one life has no form and is empty by nature. If you become attached by any form, you should reject it.… — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
The awareness of mortals falls short. As long as they're attached to appearances, they're unaware that their minds are empty. And by… — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
Once you stop clinging and let things be, you'll be free, even of birth and death. You'll transform everything. — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
When mortals are alive, they worry about death. When they're full, they worry about hunger. Theirs is the Great Uncertainty. But sages… — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
One clings to life although there is nothing to be called life; another clings to death although there is nothing to be… — 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
