Life and death are important. Don’t suffer them in vain.
BODHIDHARMAI do not need any writing, since I transmit teaching beyond words and ideas.
More Bodhidharma Quotes
-
-
The ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They’re not the Way.
BODHIDHARMA -
Reality has no inside, outside, or middle part.
BODHIDHARMA -
But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.
BODHIDHARMA -
Everything good and bad comes from your own mind. To find something beyond the mind is impossible.
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 -
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 -
In order to see a fish you must watch the water
BODHIDHARMA -
The Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting.
BODHIDHARMA -
And as long as you’re subject to birth and death, you’ll never attain enlightenment.
BODHIDHARMA -
An Awakened person is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.
BODHIDHARMA -
Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.
BODHIDHARMA -
As mortals, we’re ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.
BODHIDHARMA -
I never lost or fail, not yet conquered. If I fall seven times, I get up eight
BODHIDHARMA -
The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.
BODHIDHARMA -
As long as you’re enthralled by a lifeless form, you’re not free.
BODHIDHARMA