Quotes from Bodhidharma

To have a body is to suffer.

Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.

All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.

All phenomena are empty.

The true Way is sublime. It can't be expressed in language. Of what use are scriptures? But someone who sees his own nature finds the Way, even if he can't read a word.

This one life has no form and is empty by nature. If you become attached by any form, you should reject it. If you see an ego, a soul, a birth, or a death, reject them all.

Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.

People who don't see their own nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are liars and fools.

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

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

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

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

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

Buddhas don't practice nonsense.

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

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

Not creating delusions is enlightenment.

The essence of the Way is detachment.

Life and death are important. Don't suffer them in vain.

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

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

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

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.

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