Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Bodhidharma
Bhikkhu
Biographer
Philosopher
Zen Master
Bharat
Damo
Things
Six
Aggregates
Aren
Fictions
Fiction
Located
Realizing
Realizes
Five
Understands
Language
Whoever
Body
Anywhere
Real
Senses
More quotes by Bodhidharma
The ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They're not the Way.
Bodhidharma
And as long as you're subject to birth and death, you'll never attain enlightenment.
Bodhidharma
People who don't see their own nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are liars and fools.
Bodhidharma
Life and death are important. Don't suffer them in vain.
Bodhidharma
In order to see a fish you must watch the water
Bodhidharma
Without the mind there is no Buddha. Without the Buddha there's no mind.
Bodhidharma
To see nothing is to perceive the Way, and to understand nothing is to know the Dharma, because seeing is neither seeing nor not seeing, and because understanding is neither understanding nor not understanding.
Bodhidharma
And the Buddha is the person who's free: free of plans, free of cares.
Bodhidharma
To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.
Bodhidharma
Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.
Bodhidharma
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
If you use your mind to study reality, you won't understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you'll understand both.
Bodhidharma
Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen.
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
When your mind doesn't stir inside, the world doesn't arise outside. When the world and the mind are both transparent, this is true vision. And such understanding is true understanding.
Bodhidharma
The Way is basically perfect. It doesn't require perfecting.
Bodhidharma
Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.
Bodhidharma
To have a body is to suffer.
Bodhidharma
To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.
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
