Quotes By Bodhidharma

As mortals, we're ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.

Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.

Life and death are important. Don't suffer them in vain.

Freeing oneself from words is liberation.

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.

Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.

Your nature is the Buddha.

The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.

Buddhas don't practice nonsense.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.