Quote

If you see your nature, you don't need to read sutras or invoke buddhas. Erudition and knowledge are not only useless but also cloud your awareness. Doctrines are only for pointing to the mind. Once you see your mind, why pay attention to doctrines?

Bodhidharma

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Bodhidharma
Bhikkhu
Biographer
Philosopher
Zen Master
Bharat
Damo
Read
Pointing
Nature
Useless
Also
Doctrine
Need
Clouds
Sutras
Needs
Awareness
Erudition
Mind
Pay
Invoke
Attention
Doctrines
Knowledge
Cloud

More quotes by 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
Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.
Bodhidharma
Image
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
Image
People who don't see their own nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are liars and fools.
Bodhidharma
Image
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.
Bodhidharma
Image
Those who worship don't know, and those who know don't worship.
Bodhidharma
Image
Without the mind there is no Buddha. Without the Buddha there's no mind.
Bodhidharma
Image
Our true buddha-nature has no shape. And the dust of affliction has no form.
Bodhidharma
Image
To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.
Bodhidharma
Image
Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.
Bodhidharma
Image
Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.
Bodhidharma
Image
According to the Sutras, evil deeds result in hardships and good deeds result in blessings.
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 remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.
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
To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.
Bodhidharma
Image
The essence of the Way is detachment. And the goal of those who practice is freedom from appearances.
Bodhidharma
Image
Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.
Bodhidharma
Image
The essence of the Way is detachment.
Bodhidharma
Image
All know the way, but few actually walk it.
Bodhidharma