Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.
– Bodhidharma
To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.
– Bodhidharma
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.
– Bodhidharma
The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.
– Bodhidharma
The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.
– Bodhidharma
People who don't see their nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are lairs and fools.
– Bodhidharma
Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.
– Bodhidharma
Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher's help.
– Bodhidharma
Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.
– Bodhidharma
Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.
– Bodhidharma
Life and death are important. Don't suffer them in vain.
– Bodhidharma
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
But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.
– Bodhidharma
Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will.
– Bodhidharma
And as long as you're subject to birth and death, you'll never attain enlightenment.
– Bodhidharma
All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
– Bodhidharma
A Buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.