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Bodhidharma Quotes About Nature

People who don't see their nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are lairs and fools.

Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.

Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.

To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.

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.

Your nature is the Buddha.

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But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.

Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.

Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.

People of this world are deluded. They're always longing for something - always, in a word, seeking.

To go from mortal to Buddha, you have to put an end to karma, nurture your awareness, and accept what life brings.

But deluded people don't realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside.

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

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

The mind is the root from which all things grow if you can understand the mind, everything else is included.

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

Many roads lead to the path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.

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

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.

Whoever knows that the mind is a fiction and devoid of anything real knows that his own mind neither exists nor doesn't exist.

All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.

Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher's help.

Neither gods nor men can foresee when an evil deed will bear its fruit.

Life and death are important. Don't suffer them in vain.

Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.

If you use your mind to look for a Buddha, you won't see the Buddha.

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

The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.

You can't know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.

A Buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.

The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.

And the Buddha is the person who's free: free of plans, free of cares.

Freeing oneself from words is liberation.

Regardless of what we do, our karma has no hold on us.

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.

As long as you're enthralled by a lifeless form, you're not free.

The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.

The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.

If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.

The Way is basically perfect. It doesn't require perfecting.

To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.

Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.

As mortals, we're ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.

Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.

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.

Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.

Not creating delusions is enlightenment.

Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.

Words are illusions.

To have a body is to suffer.

The essence of the Way is detachment.

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.

Your mind is nirvana.

Buddhas don't practice nonsense.

Browse 55 quotes attributed to Bodhidharma, listed in the source data as a Indian Leader, organized around themes such as Nature, Life, Karma. Use the topic links to explore similar quotes, or browse the full author collection in one place.