Quotes from Bodhidharma

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

All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.

Your nature is the Buddha.

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

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

Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.

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

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.

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

The Dharma is the truth that all natures 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.

Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen.

But people of the deepest understanding look within, distracted by nothing. Since a clear mind is the Buddha, they attain the understanding of a Buddha without using the mind.

Those who worship don't know, and those who know don't worship.

To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.

At every moment where language can't go, that's your mind.

All know the way; few actually walk it.

People of this world are deluded. They're always longing for something-always, in a word, seeking. But the wise wake up. They choose reason over custom. They fix their minds on the sublime and let their bodies change with the seasons. All phenomena are empty. They contain nothing worth desiring.

Vast emptiness, nothing holy.

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.

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

Poverty and hardship are created by false thinking.

A buddha is an idle person. He doesn't run around after fortune and fame.