Bodhidharma Quotes
Collection of top 74 famous quotes about Bodhidharma
Bodhidharma Quotes & Sayings
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Your mind is nirvana.
— Bodhidharma
People who don't see their nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are lairs and fools.
— Bodhidharma
To have a body is to suffer.
— Bodhidharma
Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
— Bodhidharma
Words are illusions.
— Bodhidharma
Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.
— Bodhidharma
Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.
— Bodhidharma
To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.
— Bodhidharma
Whoever knows that the mind is a fiction and devoid of anything real knows that his own mind neither exists nor doesn't exist.
— Bodhidharma
Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.
— Bodhidharma
People who don't see their own nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are liars and fools.
— Bodhidharma
To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.
— Bodhidharma
Everything good and bad comes from your own mind. To find something beyond the mind is impossible.
— Bodhidharma
But deluded people don't realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside.
— Bodhidharma
Once you stop clinging and let things be, you'll be free, even of birth and death. You'll transform everything.
— Bodhidharma
Your nature is the Buddha.
— Bodhidharma
Regardless of what we do, our karma has no hold on us.
— Bodhidharma
Not creating delusions is enlightenment.
— Bodhidharma
Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.
— 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.
— Bodhidharma
The mind is always present. You just don't see it.
— Bodhidharma
The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.
— Bodhidharma
Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen.
— Bodhidharma
All know the way, but few actually walk it.
— Bodhidharma
Vast emptiness, nothing holy.
— Bodhidharma
Reality has no inside, outside, or middle part.
— Bodhidharma
The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.
— Bodhidharma
Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.
— Bodhidharma
If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.
— Bodhidharma
As mortals, we're ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.
— Bodhidharma
Buddhas don't practice nonsense.
— Bodhidharma
Poverty and hardship are created by false thinking.
— Bodhidharma
As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you'll never see that your own mind is the Buddha.
— Bodhidharma
When you don't understand, you depend on reality. When you do understand, reality depends on you.
— Bodhidharma
To go from mortal to Buddha, you have to put an end to karma, nurture your awareness, and accept what life brings.
— Bodhidharma
Life and death are important. Don't suffer them in vain.
— Bodhidharma
When we're deluded there's a world to escape. When we're aware, there's nothing to escape.
— Bodhidharma
Everything sacred, nothing sacred.
— Bodhidharma
According to the Sutras, evil deeds result in hardships and good deeds result in blessings.
— Bodhidharma
All phenomena are empty.
— Bodhidharma
The essence of the Way is detachment.
— Bodhidharma
Unless you see your nature, all this talk about cause & effect is nonsense. Buddhas don't practice nonsense.
— Bodhidharma
Someone who seeks the Way doesn't look beyond himself.
— Bodhidharma
The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure. By this truth, all appearances are empty.
— Bodhidharma
All know the way of prosperity only few walk it.
— Bodhidharma
All know the way; few actually walk it.
— Bodhidharma
In order to see a fish you must watch the water
— Bodhidharma
Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.
— Bodhidharma