Quotes By Bodhidharma

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

All phenomena are empty.

Freeing oneself from words is liberation.

Not creating delusions is enlightenment.

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.

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

Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.

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

Your nature is the Buddha.

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

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

Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.

The mind is the root from which all things grow if you can understand the mind, everything else is included.

Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.

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.

To go from mortal to Buddha, you have to put an end to karma, nurture your awareness, and accept what life brings.

And the Buddha is the person who's free: free of plans, free of cares.

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

The essence of the Way is detachment.

Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.

To see nothing is to perceive the Way, and to understand nothing is to know the Dharma, because seeing is neither seeing nor not seeing and because understanding is neither understanding nor not understanding.

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

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.