"To have a body is to suffer." — Bodhidharma

"To have a body is to suffer."

— Bodhidharma

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89 Quotes by Bodhidharma

Bodhidharma has 89 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Whoever knows that the mind is a fiction and devoid of anything real knows that his own mind neither exists…
An Awakened person is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.
To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.
But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.
All know the way, but few actually walk it.
When mortals are alive, they worry about death. When they're full, they worry about hunger. Theirs is the Great Uncertainty.…
But people of the deepest understanding look within, distracted by nothing. Since a clear mind is the Buddha, they attain…
Once you stop clinging and let things be, you'll be free, even of birth and death. You'll transform everything.
The essence of the Way is detachment. And the goal of those who practice is freedom from appearances.
Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.
To go from mortal to Buddha, you have to put an end to karma, nurture your awareness, and accept what…
And as long as you're subject to birth and death, you'll never attain enlightenment.

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Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses. — Hannah Arendt
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure… — Aristotle
If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the… — M H Abrams
Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail… — Johann Arndt
Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds… — Mary Astell
The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa… — Chinua Achebe
Perception is reality. — Lee Atwater
I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens. — John James Audubon
If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do… — John James Audubon
Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All… — Saint Augustine

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