Bodhidharma Quotes, Mean Quotes, Awareness Quotes

Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Bodhidharma Quotes , Mean Quotes , Awareness Quotes

Whoever knows that the mind is a fiction and devoid of anything real knows that his own mind neither exists nor doesn't exist.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Bodhidharma Quotes , Real Quotes , Uprising Quotes

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

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Bodhidharma Quotes , Somewhere Else Quotes , Long Quotes

The Buddha is your real body, your original mind. This mind has no form or characteristics, no cause or effect, no tendons or bones. It's like space. You can't hold it. It's not the mind of materialists or nihilists. If you don't see your own miraculously aware nature, you'll never find a Buddha, even if you break your body into atoms.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Bodhidharma Quotes , Wisdom Quotes , Real Quotes

Buddhas don't practice nonsense.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Bodhidharma Quotes , Practice Quotes

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Bodhidharma Quotes , Understanding Quotes , Way Quotes

Once you stop clinging and let things be, you'll be free, even of birth and death. You'll transform everything.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Bodhidharma Quotes , Attachment Quotes , Transformation Quotes

Everything good and bad comes from your own mind. To find something beyond the mind is impossible.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Bodhidharma Quotes , Mind Quotes , Impossible Quotes

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

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Bodhidharma Quotes

All Buddhas preach emptiness. Why? Because they wish to crush the concrete ideas of the students. If a student even clings to an idea of emptiness, he betrays all Buddhas.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Bodhidharma Quotes , Crush Quotes , Ideas Quotes

But people of the deepest understanding look within, distracted by nothing. Since a clear mind is the Buddha, they attain the understanding of a Buddha without using the mind.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Bodhidharma Quotes , People Quotes , Meditation Quotes

Without the mind there is no Buddha. Without the Buddha there's no mind.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Bodhidharma Quotes

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Bodhidharma Quotes , Believe Quotes , Mean Quotes

Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Bodhidharma Quotes

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

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Bodhidharma Quotes , People Quotes , World Quotes

An Awakened person is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Bodhidharma Quotes , Meditation Quotes , Fortune Quotes

People of this world are deluded. They're always longing for something, always, in a word, seeking. But the wise wake up. They choose reason over custom. They fix their minds on the sublime and let their bodies change with the seasons.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Bodhidharma Quotes , Wise Quotes , People Quotes

The essence of the Way is detachment. And the goal of those who practice is freedom from appearances.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Bodhidharma Quotes , Attachment Quotes , Essence Quotes

Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Bodhidharma Quotes , Suffering Quotes , Way Quotes

When we're deluded there's a world to escape. When we're aware, there's nothing to escape.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Bodhidharma Quotes , World Quotes