The mind is always present. You just don’t see it.
BODHIDHARMAThe ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.
More Bodhidharma Quotes
-
-
To have a body is to suffer.
BODHIDHARMA -
All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
BODHIDHARMA -
If you use your mind to look for a Buddha, you won’t see the Buddha.
BODHIDHARMA -
Everything sacred, nothing sacred.
BODHIDHARMA -
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.
BODHIDHARMA -
The Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting.
BODHIDHARMA -
Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.
BODHIDHARMA -
Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.
BODHIDHARMA -
Externally keep yourself away from all relationships, and internally have no pantings in your heart; when your mind is like unto a straight-standing wall, you may enter into the Path.
BODHIDHARMA -
Trying to find a buddha or enlightenment is like trying to grab space.
BODHIDHARMA -
As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you’ll never see that your own mind is the Buddha
BODHIDHARMA -
To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.
BODHIDHARMA -
Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen.
BODHIDHARMA -
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.
BODHIDHARMA -
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.
BODHIDHARMA