Bodhidharma Quotes

Bodhidharma
Indian Leader
Buddha Mind Nature Way You Your
Related authors: Dayananda Saraswati Jawaharlal Nehru Lal Bahadur Shastri Mahatma Gandhi Paramahansa Yogananda Prem Rawat Ramakrishna Sai Baba
The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion. Bodhidharma
Anger Mind Three Greed Evils Poisons Delusion Passions Afflictions Infinite Rooted Ignorant
If you use your mind to study reality, you won't understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you'll understand both. Bodhidharma
You Learning Reality Mind Both Study Without Understand Either Use Your Using
According to the Sutras, evil deeds result in hardships and good deeds result in blessings. Bodhidharma
Good Result Hardships Evil Good Deeds Blessings According Deeds
Not creating delusions is enlightenment. Bodhidharma
Delusions Creating Enlightenment
To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity. Bodhidharma
Yourself Charity Regret Give Without Greatest Up
Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom. Bodhidharma
Wisdom Ignorance Engaging
As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you'll never see that your own mind is the Buddha. Bodhidharma
You Mind Long Somewhere Own Else See Somewhere Else Never Buddha Look Your
To have a body is to suffer. Bodhidharma
Body Suffer
Your mind is nirvana. Bodhidharma
Mind Nirvana Your
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. Bodhidharma
Great Fruit Reward Blessed Past Seed Some Great Reward Fame In The Past Us Should Fortune Planted
People who don't see their nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are lairs and fools. Bodhidharma
Time Nature People Fools Practice Imagination Thoughtlessness See Who Imagine
Words are illusions. Bodhidharma
Words Illusions
Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either. Bodhidharma
Mind Evil Awareness Prevents Arising Buddha Either Body Means
But deluded people don't realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside. Bodhidharma
People Mind Own Outside Deluded Buddha Realize Searching Keep
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
Language Located Buddhas Understands Real Five Six Senses Fictions Anywhere Body Such Things Whoever Things
The mind is always present. You just don't see it. Bodhidharma
You Mind See Always Just Present
As long as you're enthralled by a lifeless form, you're not free. Bodhidharma
You Free Long Lifeless Form
The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure. Bodhidharma
Truth Pure Natures
You can't know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself. Bodhidharma
You Yourself Mind Long Know Real Deceive Your
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
Understanding Nothing Way Neither See Seeing Perceive Know Because Understand Nor
Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions. Bodhidharma
Religion Humility Worship Self Delusions Real Reverence Real Self Means Your Humbling
Neither gods nor men can foresee when an evil deed will bear its fruit. Bodhidharma
Fruit Will Evil Men Neither Bear Nor Foresee Gods Deed
As mortals, we're ruled by conditions, not by ourselves. Bodhidharma
Ruled Ourselves Mortals Conditions
And as long as you're subject to birth and death, you'll never attain enlightenment. Bodhidharma
Death You Long Birth Attain Never Subject Enlightenment
Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood. Bodhidharma
Awareness Delusion Mortality Means
But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes. Bodhidharma
Success Failure Mind Depend Neither Nor Conditions While
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