I never lost or fail, not yet conquered. If I fall seven times, I get up eight — 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… — 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… — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
The true Way is sublime. It can't be expressed in language. Of what use are scriptures? But someone who sees his own… — 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
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
Unless you see your nature, you shouldn't go around criticizing the goodness of others. There's no advantage in deceiving yourself. Good and… — 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… — 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
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
If you know that everything comes from the mind, don't become attached. Once attached, you're unaware. But once you see your own… — 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
