Bodhidharma Quotes
A Buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.
The mind is always present. You just don’t see it.
As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you’ll never see that your own mind is the Buddha.
Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.
All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
But deluded people don’t realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside.
And as long as you’re subject to birth and death, you’ll never attain enlightenment.
You can’t know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.
The Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting.
As mortals, we’re ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.
Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.
Buddhas don’t practice nonsense.
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.
Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.
Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
Your mind is nirvana.
But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.
Not creating delusions is enlightenment.
People of this world are deluded. They’re always longing for something – always, in a word, seeking.
The essence of the Way is detachment.
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