Bodhidharma Quotes, Dharma Quotes

The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Bodhidharma Quotes , Dharma Quotes

But when you first embark on the Path, your awareness won't be focused. You're likely to see all sorts of strange, dreamlike scenes. But you shouldn't doubt that all such scenes come from your own mind and nowhere else.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Bodhidharma Quotes , Doubt Quotes , Mind 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

Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Bodhidharma Quotes , Ignorance Quotes , Stupidity Quotes

To find Buddha, you have to see your nature. Whoever sees his nature is a Buddha. If you don't see your nature, invoking buddhas, reciting sutras, making offerings, and keeping precepts are all useless. Invoking buddhas results in good karma, reciting sutras results in a good memory, keeping precepts results in good rebirth, and making offerings results in future blessings-but no Buddha.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Bodhidharma Quotes , Karma Quotes , Wisdom Quotes

. . . the fools of this world prefer to look for sages far away. They don't believe that the wisdom of their own mind is the sage . . . the sutras say, "Mind is the teaching." But people of no understanding don't believe in their own mind or that by understanding this teaching they can become a sage. They prefer to look for distant knowledge and long for things in space, buddha-images, light, incense, and colors. They fall prey to falsehood and lose their minds to insanity.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Bodhidharma Quotes , Believe Quotes , Fall 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

When your mind doesn't stir inside, the world doesn't arise outside. When the world and the mind are both transparent, this is true vision. And such understanding is true understanding.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Bodhidharma Quotes , Understanding Quotes , Mind Quotes

Freeing oneself from words is liberation.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Bodhidharma Quotes , Liberation Quotes

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

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Bodhidharma Quotes , Karma Quotes

Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Bodhidharma Quotes , Suffering Quotes , Way Quotes

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

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Bodhidharma Quotes , Mind Quotes , Looks Quotes

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

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Bodhidharma Quotes , Life Quotes , Karma Quotes

Still others commit all sorts of evil deeds, claiming karma doesn't exist. They erroneously maintain that since everything is empty, committing evil isn't wrong. Such persons fall into a hell of endless darkness with no hope of release. Those who are wise hold no such conception.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Bodhidharma Quotes , Karma Quotes , Wise Quotes

To have a body is to suffer. Does anyone with a body know peace? Those who understand this detach themselves from all that exists and stop imagining or seeking anything. The sutras say, "To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss." When you seek nothing, you're on the Path.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Bodhidharma Quotes , Peace Quotes , Suffering Quotes

All know the way, but few actually walk it.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Bodhidharma Quotes , Buddhism Quotes , Inspire Quotes

Buddhas don't practice nonsense.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Bodhidharma Quotes , Practice Quotes

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

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Bodhidharma Quotes , Wind Quotes , Joy Quotes

This one life has no form and is empty by nature. If you become attached by any form, you should reject it. If you see an ego, a soul, a birth, or a death, reject them all.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Bodhidharma Quotes , Soul Quotes , Ego Quotes

One clings to life although there is nothing to be called life; another clings to death although there is nothing to be called death. In reality, there is nothing to be born; consequently, there is nothing to perish.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Bodhidharma Quotes , Reality Quotes