To enter by reason means to realize the essence through instruction and to believe that all living things share the same true… — 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
Worship means reverence and humility. It means revering your real self and humbling delusions. If you can wipe out evil desires and… — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
Not thinking about anything is zen. Once you know this, walking, standing, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is zen. To… — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion. — 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
