Regardless of what we do, our karma has no hold on us.
BODHIDHARMAWhen we’re deluded there’s a world to escape. When we’re aware, there’s nothing to escape.
More Bodhidharma Quotes
-
-
Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.
BODHIDHARMA -
To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.
BODHIDHARMA -
Everything good and bad comes from your own mind. To find something beyond the mind is impossible.
BODHIDHARMA -
To have a body is to suffer. Does anyone with a body know peace? Those who understand this detach themselves from all that exists and stop imagining or seeking anything. The sutras say, “To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.” When you seek nothing, you’re on the Path.
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 -
To have a body is to suffer.
BODHIDHARMA -
People of this world are deluded. They’re always longing for something – always, in a word, seeking.
BODHIDHARMA -
I never lost or fail, not yet conquered. If I fall seven times, I get up eight
BODHIDHARMA -
The Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting. The Way has no form or sound. It’s subtle and hard to perceive. It’s like when you drink water: you know how hot or cold it is, but you can’t tell others.
BODHIDHARMA -
Unless you see your nature, all this talk about cause & effect is nonsense. Buddhas don’t practice nonsense.
BODHIDHARMA -
Buddhas don’t practice nonsense.
BODHIDHARMA -
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.
BODHIDHARMA -
To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.
BODHIDHARMA -
The essence of the Way is detachment.
BODHIDHARMA -
The true Way is sublime. It can’t be expressed in language. Of what use are scriptures? But someone who sees his own nature finds the Way, even if he can’t read a word.
BODHIDHARMA