Quote

The mind is always present. You just don't see it.

Bodhidharma

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Bodhidharma
Bhikkhu
Biographer
Philosopher
Zen Master
Bharat
Damo
Present
Mind
Always

More quotes by Bodhidharma

Image
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
Image
In order to see a fish you must watch the water
Bodhidharma
Image
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
Image
Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.
Bodhidharma
Image
The mind's capacity is limitless, and its manifestations are inexhaustible. Seeing forms with your eyes, hearing sounds with your ears, smelling odors with your nose, tasting flavors with your tongue, every movement or state is all your mind.
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
The ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They're not the Way.
Bodhidharma
Image
The essence of the Way is detachment.
Bodhidharma
Image
Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.
Bodhidharma
Image
Those who worship don't know, and those who know don't worship.
Bodhidharma
Image
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
Image
But deluded people don't realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside.
Bodhidharma
Image
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
Image
People who don't see their own nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are liars and fools.
Bodhidharma
Image
Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.
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 seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.
Bodhidharma
Image
To have a body is to suffer.
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
Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.
Bodhidharma