Quote

Not creating delusions is enlightenment.

Bodhidharma

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Bodhidharma
Bhikkhu
Biographer
Philosopher
Zen Master
Bharat
Damo
Delusions
Delusion
Enlightenment
Creating

More quotes by Bodhidharma

Image
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
Image
And the Buddha is the person who's free: free of plans, free of cares.
Bodhidharma
Image
Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.
Bodhidharma
Image
But when you first embark on the Path, your awareness won't be focused. You're likely to see all sorts of strange, dreamlike scenes. But you shouldn't doubt that all such scenes come from your own mind and nowhere else.
Bodhidharma
Image
Without the mind there is no Buddha. Without the Buddha there's no mind.
Bodhidharma
Image
But deluded people don't realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside.
Bodhidharma
Image
The Buddha is your real body, your original mind. This mind has no form or characteristics, no cause or effect, no tendons or bones. It's like space. You can't hold it. It's not the mind of materialists or nihilists. If you don't see your own miraculously aware nature, you'll never find a Buddha, even if you break your body into atoms.
Bodhidharma
Image
Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
Bodhidharma
Image
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
Image
Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.
Bodhidharma
Image
If you use your mind to look for a Buddha, you won't see the Buddha.
Bodhidharma
Image
Our true buddha-nature has no shape. And the dust of affliction has no form.
Bodhidharma
Image
But people of the deepest understanding look within, distracted by nothing. Since a clear mind is the Buddha, they attain the understanding of a Buddha without using the mind.
Bodhidharma
Image
Whoever knows that the mind is a fiction and devoid of anything real knows that his own mind neither exists nor doesn't exist.
Bodhidharma
Image
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
Image
The mind's capacity is limitless, and its manifestations are inexhaustible. Seeing forms with your eyes, hearing sounds with your ears, smelling odors with your nose, tasting flavors with your tongue, every movement or state is all your mind.
Bodhidharma
Image
Those who worship don't know, and those who know don't worship.
Bodhidharma
Image
Everything sacred, nothing sacred.
Bodhidharma
Image
The essence of the Way is detachment.
Bodhidharma
Image
The ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They're not the Way.
Bodhidharma