Bodhidharma Quotes - Page 4

Buddhas don't practice nonsense.

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

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.

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.

But this mind isn't somewhere outside the material body of the four elements. Without this mind we can't move. The body has no awareness. Like a plant or a stone, the body has no nature. So how does it move? It's the mind that moves.

Not creating delusions is enlightenment.

Reality has no inside, outside, or middle part.

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

To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.

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.

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

To have a body is to suffer.

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

And the Buddha is the person who's free: free of plans, free of cares.

Worship means reverence and humility. It means revering your real self and humbling delusions. If you can wipe out evil desires and harbor good thoughts, even if nothing shows, it's worship. Such form is its real form.

Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.

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

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

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

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

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

Unless you see your nature, all this talk about cause & effect is nonsense. Buddhas don't practice nonsense.

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

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

Our true buddha-nature has no shape. And the dust of affliction has no form.