Quotes by Bodhidharma

About Bodhidharma:

Bodhidharma is traditionally credited as the transmitter of Chan Buddhism to China, and regarded as its first Chinese patriarch. According to Chinese legend, he also began the physical training of the monks of Shaolin Monastery that led to the creation of Shaolin Kung Fu.
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If you use your mind to look for a Buddha, you won't see the Buddha.

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And the Buddha is the person who's free: free of plans, free of cares.

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Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.

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Whoever knows that the mind is a fiction and devoid of anything real knows that his own mind neither exists nor doesn't exist.

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The mind is the root from which all things grow if you can understand the mind, everything else is included.

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People of this world are deluded. They're always longing for something - always, in a word, seeking.

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Whoever realizes that the six senses aren't real, that the five aggregates are fictions, that no such things can be located anywhere in the body, understands the language of Buddhas.

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Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.

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Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.

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If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.

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The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.

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Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.

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All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.

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A Buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.

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But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.

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People who don't see their nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are lairs and fools.

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And as long as you're subject to birth and death, you'll never attain enlightenment.

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Life and death are important. Don't suffer them in vain.

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Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will.

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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.

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According to the Sutras, evil deeds result in hardships and good deeds result in blessings.

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Author Bio

  • NameBodhidharma
  • Born483
  • Died540
  • CountryIndia
  • ProfessionBhikkhu; Philosopher