Quotes By Bodhidharma

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.

Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.

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

Your nature is the Buddha.

You can't know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.

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

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

Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.

The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.

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

And as long as you're subject to birth and death, you'll never attain enlightenment.

As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you'll never see that your own mind is the Buddha.

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

Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.

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

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

To have a body is to suffer.

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

The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.

All phenomena are empty.

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

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 body, understands the language of Buddhas.

Not creating delusions is enlightenment.

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

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

According to the Sutras, evil deeds result in hardships and good deeds result in blessings.

All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.

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.

If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.