Quotes By Bodhidharma

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.

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

To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.

Your mind is nirvana.

A Buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.

But deluded people don't realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside.

Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.

The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.

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

Freeing oneself from words is liberation.

Buddhas don't practice nonsense.

As long as you're enthralled by a lifeless form, you're not free.

Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher's help.

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.

Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.

The mind is always present. You just don't see it.

Your nature is the Buddha.

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

Neither gods nor men can foresee when an evil deed will bear its fruit.

The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.

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

The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.

Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.

The Way is basically perfect. It doesn't require perfecting.

And as long as you're subject to birth and death, you'll never attain enlightenment.

Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.

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

Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.

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

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