Bodhidharma Quotes

Bodhidharma was a Buddhist monk who lived during the 5th or 6th century. He is traditionally credited as the transmitter of Chan Buddhism to China, and regarded as its first Chinese patriarch.

Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.

Topic(s): Inspirational , Wisdom , Ignorance

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

Topic(s): Ifs , Mind , Grows

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

Topic(s): Inspirational , Nature , Human Nature

An Awakened person is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.

Topic(s): Persons , Meditation , Fortune

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

Topic(s): Life , Ends , Accepting

To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.

Topic(s): Suffering , Bliss

The essence of the Way is detachment. And the goal of those who practice is freedom from appearances.

Topic(s): Way , Goal , Practice

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.

Topic(s): Ifs , Should , Past

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

Topic(s): Karma , Holding On

Buddhas don’t practice nonsense.

Topic(s): Practice , Nonsense

To have a body is to suffer.

Topic(s): Body , Suffering

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

Topic(s): Knows , Mind , Real

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Bodhidharma Quotes