Quote

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

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Bodhidharma
Bhikkhu
Biographer
Philosopher
Zen Master
Bharat
Damo
Perceive
Neither
Seeing
Understanding
Understand
Nothing
Way
Dharma

More quotes by Bodhidharma

Image
Once you stop clinging and let things be, you'll be free, even of birth and death. You'll transform everything.
Bodhidharma
Image
The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.
Bodhidharma
Image
The essence of the Way is detachment.
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
The ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They're not the Way.
Bodhidharma
Image
Not thinking about anything is zen. Once you know this, walking, standing, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is zen. To know that the mind is empty is to see the buddha.... Using the mind to reality is delusion. Not using the mind to look for reality is awareness. Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
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
The Way is basically perfect. It doesn't require perfecting.
Bodhidharma
Image
Those who worship don't know, and those who know don't worship.
Bodhidharma
Image
Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.
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
To enter by reason means to realize the essence through instruction and to believe that all living things share the same true nature, which isn't apparent because it's shrouded by sensation and delusion.
Bodhidharma
Image
The essence of the Way is detachment. And the goal of those who practice is freedom from appearances.
Bodhidharma
Image
If you use your mind to look for a Buddha, you won't see the Buddha.
Bodhidharma
Image
You can't know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.
Bodhidharma
Image
But deluded people don't realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside.
Bodhidharma
Image
Without the mind there is no Buddha. Without the Buddha there's no mind.
Bodhidharma
Image
As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you'll never see that your own mind is the Buddha
Bodhidharma
Image
To have a body is to suffer.
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