Assurance Quote by Bodhidharma

Unless you see your nature, all this talk about cause & effect is nonsense. Buddhas don't practice nonsense.

— Bodhidharma

“Those who worship don't know, and those who know don't worship.”

— Bodhidharma

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

People who don't see their own nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are liars and fools.

— Bodhidharma

The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.

— Bodhidharma

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

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

Many roads lead to the Path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.

— Bodhidharma

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

Buddhas don't practice nonsense.

— Bodhidharma

Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen.

— Bodhidharma

When you don't understand, you depend on reality. When you do understand, reality depends on you.

— Bodhidharma