Bodhidharma

If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.

Help us to share this great article. Your friends will appreciate it!

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.

Help us to share this great article. Your friends will appreciate it!

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

Help us to share this great article. Your friends will appreciate it!

Our true buddha-nature has no shape. And the dust of affliction has no form.

Help us to share this great article. Your friends will appreciate it!

The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.

Help us to share this great article. Your friends will appreciate it!

Unless you see your nature, all this talk about cause & effect is nonsense. Buddhas don’t practice nonsense.

Help us to share this great article. Your friends will appreciate it!

Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.

Help us to share this great article. Your friends will appreciate it!

To have a body is to suffer.

Help us to share this great article. Your friends will appreciate it!

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

Help us to share this great article. Your friends will appreciate it!

I do not need any writing, since I transmit teaching beyond words and ideas.

Help us to share this great article. Your friends will appreciate it!

The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.

Help us to share this great article. Your friends will appreciate it!

And the Buddha is the person who’s free: free of plans, free of cares.

Help us to share this great article. Your friends will appreciate it!

All Buddhas preach emptiness. Why? Because they wish to crush the concrete ideas of the students. If a student even clings to an idea of emptiness, he betrays all Buddhas.

Help us to share this great article. Your friends will appreciate it!

When your mind doesn’t stir inside, the world doesn’t arise outside. When the world and the mind are both transparent, this is true vision. And such understanding is true understanding.

Help us to share this great article. Your friends will appreciate it!

If you use your mind to look for a Buddha, you won’t see the Buddha.

Help us to share this great article. Your friends will appreciate it!

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.

Help us to share this great article. Your friends will appreciate it!

If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.

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.

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

Our true buddha-nature has no shape. And the dust of affliction has no form.

The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.

Unless you see your nature, all this talk about cause & effect is nonsense. Buddhas don’t practice nonsense.

Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.

To have a body is to suffer.

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

I do not need any writing, since I transmit teaching beyond words and ideas.

The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.

And the Buddha is the person who’s free: free of plans, free of cares.

All Buddhas preach emptiness. Why? Because they wish to crush the concrete ideas of the students. If a student even clings to an idea of emptiness, he betrays all Buddhas.

When your mind doesn’t stir inside, the world doesn’t arise outside. When the world and the mind are both transparent, this is true vision. And such understanding is true understanding.

If you use your mind to look for a Buddha, you won’t see the Buddha.

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.

Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will.

The Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting.

As long as you’re enthralled by a lifeless form, you’re not free.

Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.