Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Everything sacred, nothing sacred.
Bodhidharma
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Bodhidharma
Bhikkhu
Biographer
Philosopher
Zen Master
Bharat
Damo
Sacred
Everything
Nothing
More quotes by Bodhidharma
When we're deluded there's a world to escape. When we're aware, there's nothing to escape.
Bodhidharma
To have a body is to suffer.
Bodhidharma
All know the way, but few actually walk it.
Bodhidharma
The essence of the Way is detachment. And the goal of those who practice is freedom from appearances.
Bodhidharma
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
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
Not creating delusions is enlightenment.
Bodhidharma
People who don't see their own nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are liars and fools.
Bodhidharma
Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.
Bodhidharma
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
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
To have a body is to suffer. Does anyone with a body know peace? Those who understand this detach themselves from all that exists and stop imagining or seeking anything. The sutras say, To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss. When you seek nothing, you're on the Path.
Bodhidharma
The Way is basically perfect. It doesn't require perfecting.
Bodhidharma
Those who worship don't know, and those who know don't worship.
Bodhidharma
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
To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.
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
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
Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.
Bodhidharma
Without the mind there is no Buddha. Without the Buddha there's no mind.
Bodhidharma