Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.
BODHIDHARMA
Leaving behind the false, return to the true: make no discriminations between self and others. In contemplation, one’s mind should be stable and unmoving, like a wall.
More Bodhidharma Quotes
-
Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.
BODHIDHARMA -
The Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting.
BODHIDHARMA -
Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.
BODHIDHARMA -
When we’re deluded there’s a world to escape. When we’re aware, there’s nothing to escape.
BODHIDHARMA -
Those who worship don’t know, and those who know don’t worship.
BODHIDHARMA -
To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.
BODHIDHARMA -
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.
BODHIDHARMA -
The ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They’re not the Way.
BODHIDHARMA -
Don’t hate life and death or love life and death. Keep your every thought free of delusion, and in life you’ll witness the beginning of nirvana, and in death you’ll experience the assurance of no rebirth.
BODHIDHARMA -
Once you stop clinging and let things be, you’ll be free, even of birth and death. You’ll transform everything.
BODHIDHARMA -
Everything sacred, nothing sacred.
BODHIDHARMA -
The awareness of mortals falls short. As long as they’re attached to appearances, they’re unaware that their minds are empty. And by mistakenly clinging to the appearance of things they lose the Way.
BODHIDHARMA -
All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
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 -
-
