Quotes from Bodhidharma

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

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

A Buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.

Freeing oneself from words is liberation.

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

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

According to the Sutras, evil deeds result in hardships and good deeds result in blessings.

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

To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.

Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.

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

Words are illusions.

Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.

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

The ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They're not the Way.

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

To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.

Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.

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

Once you know the nature of anger and joy is empty and you let them go, you free yourself from karma.

Buddhas don't practice nonsense.

Still others commit all sorts of evil deeds, claiming karma doesn't exist. They erroneously maintain that since everything is empty, committing evil isn't wrong. Such persons fall into a hell of endless darkness with no hope of release. Those who are wise hold no such conception.

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

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