Quotes By Bodhidharma

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

To have a body is to suffer.

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

All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.

All phenomena are empty.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Words are illusions.

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.

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

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.

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.

To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.

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.