Worship means reverence and humility. It means revering your real self and humbling delusions. If you can wipe out evil desires and harbor good thoughts, even if nothing shows, it's worship. Such form is its real form. — 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 Image
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 Image
People who don't see their own nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are liars and fools. — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
Many roads lead to the Path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice. — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
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 Image
Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen. — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
When you don't understand, you depend on reality. When you do understand, reality depends on you. — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
