Bodhidharma Quotes on Buddhism (14 Quotes)

If you use your mind to look for a Buddha, you won't see the Buddha.

The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.

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

To invoke the Buddha's name you have to understand the dharma of invoking. If it's not present in your mind, your mouth chants an empty name. As long as you're troubled by the three poisons or by thoughts of yourself, your deluded mind will keep you form seeing the Buddha and you'll only waste your effort. Chanting and invoking are worlds apart. Chanting is done with the mouth. Invoking is done with the mind. And because invoking comes from the mind, it's called the door to awareness. Chanting is centered in the mouth and appears as sound. If you cling to appearances while searching for meaning, you won't find a thing....

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

Bodhidharma Even if a buddha or bodhisattva should suddenly appear before you, there's no need for reverence. This mind of ours is empty and contains no such form. Those who hold onto appearances are devils. They fall from the Path. Why worship illusions.

The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.

Your nature is the Buddha.

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

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

As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you'll never see that your own mind is the Buddha.

Not thinking about anything is zen. Once you know this, walking, standing, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is zen. To know that the mind is empty is to see the buddha.... Using the mind to reality is delusion. Not using the mind to look for reality is awareness. Freeing oneself from words is liberation.

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

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