Bodhidharma Quotes

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

Mind, Everything, Understand

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

Anger, Mind, Greed

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

Learning, Mind, Reality

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

Good, Evil, Blessings

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

Teacher, Help, Person

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

Life, Karma, End

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

Karma, Hold, Regardless

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

Good, Freedom, Bad

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

Mind, Long, Else

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

Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.
Bodhidharma

Wisdom, Ignorance, Engaging

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

Mind, Keep, Realize

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, Blessed, Past

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

Mind, Evil, Means

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

Death, Long, Birth

Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
Bodhidharma

Words, Oneself, Liberation

All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
Bodhidharma

Experience, Joy, Suffering

Buddhas don't practice nonsense.
Bodhidharma

Nonsense, Practice, Buddhas

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

Yourself, Mind, Long

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

Success, Failure, Mind

Your mind is nirvana.
Bodhidharma

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

Ourselves, Conditions, Ruled

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

Perfect, Basically, Require

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

Religion, Real, Self

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

Word, Longing, Seeking

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