In order to see a fish you must watch the water
BODHIDHARMATo 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.
More Bodhidharma Quotes
-
-
The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.
BODHIDHARMA -
Unless you see your nature, all this talk about cause & effect is nonsense. Buddhas don’t practice nonsense.
BODHIDHARMA -
Once you stop clinging and let things be, you’ll be free, even of birth and death. You’ll transform everything.
BODHIDHARMA -
The ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They’re not the Way.
BODHIDHARMA -
But deluded people don’t realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside.
BODHIDHARMA -
Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen.
BODHIDHARMA -
Worship means reverence and humility. It means revering your real self and humbling delusions. If you can wipe out evil desires and harbor good thoughts, even if nothing shows, it’s worship. Such form is its real form.
BODHIDHARMA -
An Awakened person is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.
BODHIDHARMA -
As long as you’re enthralled by a lifeless form, you’re not free.
BODHIDHARMA -
Not creating delusions is enlightenment.
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 -
Life and death are important. Don’t suffer them in vain.
BODHIDHARMA -
Not thinking about anything is zen. Once you know this, walking, standing, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is zen. To know that the mind is empty is to see the buddha…. Using the mind to reality is delusion. Not using the mind to look for reality is awareness. Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
BODHIDHARMA -
Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
BODHIDHARMA -
Our true buddha-nature has no shape. And the dust of affliction has no form.
BODHIDHARMA