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
Without the mind there is no Buddha. Without the Buddha there's no mind. — 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
Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen. — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
Externally keep yourself away from all relationships, and internally have no pantings in your heart; when your mind is like unto a… — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
When your mind doesn't stir inside, the world doesn't arise outside. When the world and the mind are both transparent, this is… — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
Whoever knows that the mind is a fiction and devoid of anything real knows that his own mind neither exists nor doesn't… — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
But people of the deepest understanding look within, distracted by nothing. Since a clear mind is the Buddha, they attain the understanding… — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
The mind's capacity is limitless, and its manifestations are inexhaustible. Seeing forms with your eyes, hearing sounds with your ears, smelling odors… — 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
But when you first embark on the Path, your awareness won't be focused. You're likely to see all sorts of strange, dreamlike… — 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
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
Leaving behind the false, return to the true: make no discriminations between self and others. In contemplation, one's mind should be stable… — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes. — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either. — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
But deluded people don't realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside. — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
Everything good and bad comes from your own mind. To find something beyond the mind is impossible. — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
The mind is the root from which all things grow if you can understand the mind, everything else is included. — 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
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
But this mind isn't somewhere outside the material body of the four elements. Without this mind we can't move. The body has… — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
People of this world are deluded. They're always longing for something, always, in a word, seeking. But the wise wake up. They… — 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
. . . the fools of this world prefer to look for sages far away. They don't believe that the wisdom of… — 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
