Quotes by Bodhidharma

Bodhidharma

A buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad. Such is his power that karma can’t hold him. No matter what kind of karma, a buddha transforms it. Heaven and hell are nothing to him. But the awareness of a mortal is dim compared to that of a buddha, who penetrates everything, inside and out.

Heaven

Karma

Matter

According to the Sutras, evil deeds result in hardships and good deeds result in blessings.

Blessing

Evil

Kind Deeds

All know the way, but few actually walk it.

Buddhism

Inspire

Way

And as long as you’re subject to birth and death, you’ll never attain enlightenment.

Birth

Enlightenment

Long

As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you’ll never see that your own mind is the Buddha

Long

Mind

Somewhere Else

Buddhas don’t practice nonsense.

Nonsense

Practice

Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will.

Birth

Disappear

Moving

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.

Meditation

People

Understanding

But this mind isn’t somewhere outside the material body of the four elements. Without this mind we can’t move. The body has no awareness. Like a plant or a stone, the body has no nature. So how does it move? It’s the mind that moves.

Four Elements

Mind

Moving

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.

Doubt

Mind

Path

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Attachment

Believe

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Blessed

Blessing

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Born

Break Through

Buddhism

Creating

Deeds

Deluded

Delusion

Depends

Detachment

Dharma

Disappear

Doctrine

Doe

Doubt

Ego

Eight

Enlightenment

Essence

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Eye

Failing

Fall

Fiction

Four Elements

Giving Up

Goes Around Comes Around

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Heart

Heaven

Humility

Ideas

Ignorant Masses

Important

Inspire

Inspiring

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Quotes by Bodhidharma

Bodhidharma

According to the Sutras, evil deeds result in hardships and good deeds result in blessings.

All know the way, but few actually walk it.

And as long as you’re subject to birth and death, you’ll never attain enlightenment.

As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you’ll never see that your own mind is the Buddha

Buddhas don’t practice nonsense.

Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will.

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.

But this mind isn’t somewhere outside the material body of the four elements. Without this mind we can’t move. The body has no awareness. Like a plant or a stone, the body has no nature. So how does it move? It’s the mind that moves.

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.

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