Quote

Those who worship don't know, and those who know don't worship.

Bodhidharma

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Bodhidharma
Bhikkhu
Biographer
Philosopher
Zen Master
Bharat
Damo
Inspiring
Worship

More quotes by 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
Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.
Bodhidharma
Image
Our true buddha-nature has no shape. And the dust of affliction has no form.
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
Unless you see your nature, all this talk about cause & effect is nonsense. Buddhas don't practice nonsense.
Bodhidharma
Image
Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen.
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
Once you stop clinging and let things be, you'll be free, even of birth and death. You'll transform everything.
Bodhidharma
Image
The essence of the Way is detachment.
Bodhidharma
Image
The ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They're not the Way.
Bodhidharma
Image
If you use your mind to look for a Buddha, you won't see the Buddha.
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
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
Life and death are important. Don't suffer them in vain.
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
The essence of the Way is detachment. And the goal of those who practice is freedom from appearances.
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
Someone who seeks the Way doesn't look beyond himself.
Bodhidharma
Image
And as long as you're subject to birth and death, you'll never attain enlightenment.
Bodhidharma
Image
Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.
Bodhidharma