All Bodhidharma Quotes
- Everything good and bad comes from your own mind. To find something beyond the mind is impossible. Bad
- 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,… Delusion
- Externally keep yourself away from all relationships, and internally have no pantings in your heart; when your mind is like unto a straight-standing wall, you… Advice
- 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 your… Attention
- When we're deluded there's a world to escape. When we're aware, there's nothing to escape. Aware
- But this mind isn't somewhere outside the material body of the four elements. Without this mind we can't move. The body has no awareness. Like… Awareness
- Without the mind there is no Buddha. Without the Buddha there's no mind. Buddha
- The mind's capacity is limitless, and its manifestations are inexhaustible. Seeing forms with your eyes, hearing sounds with your ears, smelling odors with your nose,… All
- You can't know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself. Deceive
- The awareness of mortals falls short. As long as they're attached to appearances, they're unaware that their minds are empty. And by mistakenly clinging to… Appearance
- But when you first embark on the Path, your awareness won't be focused. You're likely to see all sorts of strange, dreamlike scenes. But you… All
- Still others commit all sorts of evil deeds, claiming karma doesn't exist. They erroneously maintain that since everything is empty, committing evil isn't wrong. Such… All
- Neither gods nor men can foresee when an evil deed will bear its fruit. Bear
- All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions. All
- All phenomena are empty. All
- To have a body is to suffer. Body
- The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure. All
- Your mind is nirvana. Mind
- The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind. Buddha
- To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature. All