Bodhidharma Quotes

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

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

Everything sacred, nothing sacred.

Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.

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

Someone who seeks the Way doesn't look beyond himself.

Freeing oneself from words is liberation.

In order to see a fish you must watch the water

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

To have a body is to suffer.

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.

Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.

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

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.

The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.

The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.

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

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

According to the Sutras, evil deeds result in hardships and good deeds result in blessings.

I do not need any writing, since I transmit teaching beyond words and ideas.

Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.

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

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

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

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

All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.

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

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

All know the way few actually walk it.

People who don't see their nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are lairs and fools.