All Bodhidharma Quotes
- The Buddha is your real body, your original mind. This mind has no form or characteristics, no cause or effect, no tendons or bones. It's… Atoms
- Unless you see your nature, you shouldn't go around criticizing the goodness of others. There's no advantage in deceiving yourself. Good and bad are distinct.… Advantage
- Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature. Inspirational
- Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions. Delusion
- According to the Sutras, evil deeds result in hardships and good deeds result in blessings. According
- The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion. Affliction
- People who don't see their own nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are liars and fools. All
- The true Way is sublime. It can't be expressed in language. Of what use are scriptures? But someone who sees his own nature finds the… Expressed
- Someone who seeks the Way doesn't look beyond himself. Beyond
- The ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They're not the Way. Beyond
- Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will. Appearing
- If you know that everything comes from the mind, don't become attached. Once attached, you're unaware. But once you see your own nature, the entire… All
- Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path. Follow
- To have a body is to suffer. Does anyone with a body know peace? Those who understand this detach themselves from all that exists and… All
- A buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad. Such is his power that karma can't hold him. No matter what kind… Awareness
- 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