Quotes By Bodhidharma

People of this world are deluded. They're always longing for something - always, in a word, seeking.

Your mind is nirvana.

A Buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.

But deluded people don't realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside.

Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.

All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.

The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.

Buddhas don't practice nonsense.

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, you'll understand both.

Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher's help.

As long as you're enthralled by a lifeless form, you're not free.

If we should be blessed by some great reward, such as fame or fortune, it's the fruit of a seed planted by us in the past.

The mind is always present. You just don't see it.

To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.

Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will.

Words are illusions.

Neither gods nor men can foresee when an evil deed will bear its fruit.

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

Whoever knows that the mind is a fiction and devoid of anything real knows that his own mind neither exists nor doesn't exist.

The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.

But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.

The Way is basically perfect. It doesn't require perfecting.

To enter by reason means to realize the essence through instruction and to believe that all living things share the same true nature, which isn't apparent because it's shrouded by sensation and delusion.

Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.

To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.

If you use your mind to look for a Buddha, you won't see the Buddha.

Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.

Regardless of what we do, our karma has no hold on us.

To have a body is to suffer.

Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.