The Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting.
BODHIDHARMATo find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.
More Bodhidharma Quotes
-
-
Still others commit all sorts of evil deeds, claiming karma doesn’t exist. They erroneously maintain that since everything is empty, committing evil isn’t wrong. Such persons fall into a hell of endless darkness with no hope of release. Those who are wise hold no such conception.
BODHIDHARMA -
The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.
BODHIDHARMA -
All know the way, but few actually walk it.
BODHIDHARMA -
And as long as you’re subject to birth and death, you’ll never attain enlightenment.
BODHIDHARMA -
All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
BODHIDHARMA -
To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.
BODHIDHARMA -
But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.
BODHIDHARMA -
Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.
BODHIDHARMA -
To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.
BODHIDHARMA -
This one life has no form and is empty by nature. If you become attached by any form, you should reject it. If you see an ego, a soul, a birth, or a death, reject them all.
BODHIDHARMA -
But deluded people don’t realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside.
BODHIDHARMA -
Everything sacred, nothing sacred.
BODHIDHARMA -
Buddhas don’t practice nonsense.
BODHIDHARMA -
Neither gods nor men can foresee when an evil deed will bear its fruit.
BODHIDHARMA -
When mortals are alive, they worry about death. When they’re full, they worry about hunger. Theirs is the Great Uncertainty. But sages don’t consider the past. And they don’t worry about the future. Nor do they cling to the present. And from moment to moment they follow the Way.
BODHIDHARMA






