Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Unless you see your nature, all this talk about cause & effect is nonsense. Buddhas don't practice nonsense.
Bodhidharma
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Bodhidharma
Bhikkhu
Biographer
Philosopher
Zen Master
Bharat
Damo
Effects
Unless
Cause
Causes
Practice
Talk
Nature
Nonsense
Effect
More quotes by Bodhidharma
Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen.
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
But deluded people don't realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside.
Bodhidharma
Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.
Bodhidharma
All know the way, but few actually walk it.
Bodhidharma
People who don't see their own nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are liars and fools.
Bodhidharma
Without the mind there is no Buddha. Without the Buddha there's no mind.
Bodhidharma
Someone who seeks the Way doesn't look beyond himself.
Bodhidharma
Life and death are important. Don't suffer them in vain.
Bodhidharma
Those who worship don't know, and those who know don't worship.
Bodhidharma
To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.
Bodhidharma
Not creating delusions is enlightenment.
Bodhidharma
The essence of the Way is detachment.
Bodhidharma
The Way is basically perfect. It doesn't require perfecting.
Bodhidharma
You can't know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.
Bodhidharma
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
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
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
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
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