Explore Quotes by Bodhidharma

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

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

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

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

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.

Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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