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. (Bodhidharma)
Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals. (Bodhidharma)
As long as you're enthralled by a lifeless form, you're not free. (Bodhidharma)
... this mind, through endless kalpas without beginning, has never varied. It has never lived or died, appeared or disappeared, increased or decreased. It's not pure or impure, good or evil, past or future. It's not true or false. It's not male or female. (Bodhidharma)
Neither gods nor men can foresee when an evil deed will bear its fruit. (Bodhidharma)
You can't know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself. (Bodhidharma)
If you use your mind to look for a Buddha, you won't see the Buddha. (Bodhidharma)
The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure. (Bodhidharma)
Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom. (Bodhidharma)
If you know that everything comes from the mind, don't become attached. Once attached, you're unaware. But once you see your own nature, the entire Canon becomes so much prose. It's thousands of sutras and shastras only amount to a clear mind. Understanding comes in midsentence. What good are doctrines The ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They're not the Way. The Way is wordless. Words are illusions.... Don't cling to appearances, and you'll break through all barriers.... (Bodhidharma)
The Buddha is your real body, your original mind. (Bodhidharma)
Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will. (Bodhidharma)
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)
A Buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad. (Bodhidharma)
Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial. (Bodhidharma)