Quote

Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.

Bodhidharma

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Bodhidharma
Bhikkhu
Biographer
Philosopher
Zen Master
Bharat
Damo
Sex
Nature
Immaterial
Basically

More quotes by 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
The essence of the Way is detachment.
Bodhidharma
Image
And as long as you're subject to birth and death, you'll never attain enlightenment.
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
You can't know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.
Bodhidharma
Image
Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.
Bodhidharma
Image
To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.
Bodhidharma
Image
Everything sacred, nothing sacred.
Bodhidharma
Image
Not creating delusions is enlightenment.
Bodhidharma
Image
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.
Bodhidharma
Image
Those who worship don't know, and those who know don't worship.
Bodhidharma
Image
To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.
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
The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.
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
Unless you see your nature, all this talk about cause & effect is nonsense. Buddhas don't practice nonsense.
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
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
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
Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
Bodhidharma