Bodhidharma Quotes About Dharma

Quotes about: Dharma

• 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

  Blessed, Past, Rewards

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.5, Macmillan

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

  Bodhidharma

  Meditation, Fortune, Dharma

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

  Bodhidharma

  Wisdom, Practice, Two

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.3, Macmillan

• 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, Goes Around Comes Around

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.35, Macmillan

• 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.

  Bodhidharma

  Understanding, Way, Dharma

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.55, North Point Press

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

  Bodhidharma

  Anger, Passion, Ignorant Masses

• 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

  Believe, Mean, Essence

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.3, Macmillan

• The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.

  Bodhidharma

  Dharma, Pure

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.7, Macmillan

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

  Bodhidharma

  People, Mind, Realizing

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.25, Macmillan

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

  Bodhidharma

  Dharma

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.13, Macmillan

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