Bodhidharma says: “Your body and mind are the field. Suffering is the seed, wisdom the sprout, and Buddhahood the grain. The Buddha in the mind is like a fragrance in a tree. The Buddha comes from a mind free of…
Bodhidharma says: “Worldly fools search for exotic masters, not realizing that their own mind is the master.”
Bodhidharma says: “Whoever sees his nature is a Buddha. If you don’t see your nature, invoking Buddhas, reciting sutras, making offerings, and keeping precepts are all useless.”
Bodhidharma says: “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 says: “Whoever knows that the mind is a fiction and devoid of anything real knows that his own mind neither exists nor doesn’t exist.”
Bodhidharma says: “Where afflictions don’t exist, bodhisattvas enter the place of enlightenment. An uninhabited place is one without greed, anger, or delusion. Greed is the realm of desire, anger the realm of form, and delusion the formless realm. When a…
Bodhidharma says: “When you don’t understand, you depend on reality. When reality depends on you, that which isn’t real becomes real. When you depend on reality, that which is real becomes false. When you depend on reality, everything is false.…
Bodhidharma says: “When we’re deluded there’s a world to escape. When we’re aware, there’s nothing to escape.”
Bodhidharma says: “When the mortal mind appears, buddhahood disappears. When the mortal mind disappears, buddhahood appears. When the mind appears, reality disappears. When the mind disappears, reality appears. Whoever knows that nothing depends on anything has found the Way. And…
Bodhidharma says: “When the mind reaches nirvana, you don’t see nirvana, because the mind is nirvana. If you see nirvana somewhere outside the mind, you’re deluding yourself.”