Bodhidharma
Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.Collection: Wisdom
Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.Collection: Brainy
The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.Collection: Anger
Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.Collection: Religion
Life and death are important. Don't suffer them in vain.Collection: Death
A Buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.Collection: Freedom
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.Collection: Learning
But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.Collection: Failure
Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher's help.Collection: Teacher
People who don't see their nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are lairs and fools.Collection: Imagination
When you don't understand, you depend on reality. When you do understand, reality depends on you.Collection: Reality
All Buddhas preach emptiness. Why? Because they wish to crush the concrete ideas of the students. If a student even clings to an idea of emptiness, he betrays all Buddhas.Collection: Crush
Once you stop clinging and let things be, you'll be free, even of birth and death. You'll transform everything.Collection: Attachment
I never lost or fail, not yet conquered. If I fall seven times, I get up eightCollection: Fall
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. . . . The mind and the world are opposites, and vision arises where they meet. When your mind doesn't stir inside, the world doesn't arise outside. When the world and the mind are both transparent, this is true vision. And such understanding is true understanding.Collection: Reality
In order to see a fish you must watch the waterCollection: Order
All know the way, but few actually walk it.Collection: Buddhism
Those who worship don't know, and those who know don't worship.Collection: Inspiring
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.Collection: Lying
As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you'll never see that your own mind is the BuddhaCollection: Somewhere Else
To have a body is to suffer. Does anyone with a body know peace? Those who understand this detach themselves from all that exists and stop imagining or seeking anything. The sutras say, "To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss." When you seek nothing, you're on the Path.Collection: Peace
To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.Collection: Suffering
The mind is the root from which all things grow. If you can understand the mind, everything else is included.Collection: Roots
The ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They're not the Way.Collection: Doctrine
Whoever knows that the mind is a fiction and devoid of anything real knows that his own mind neither exists nor doesn't exist.Collection: Real
The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.Collection: Real
Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen.Collection: Lying
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.Collection: Understanding
. . . the fools of this world prefer to look for sages far away. They don't believe that the wisdom of their own mind is the sage . . . the sutras say, "Mind is the teaching." But people of no understanding don't believe in their own mind or that by understanding this teaching they can become a sage. They prefer to look for distant knowledge and long for things in space, buddha-images, light, incense, and colors. They fall prey to falsehood and lose their minds to insanity.Collection: Believe
To find Buddha, you have to see your nature. Whoever sees his nature is a Buddha. If you don't see your nature, invoking buddhas, reciting sutras, making offerings, and keeping precepts are all useless. Invoking buddhas results in good karma, reciting sutras results in a good memory, keeping precepts results in good rebirth, and making offerings results in future blessings-but no Buddha.Collection: Karma
When we're deluded there's a world to escape. When we're aware, there's nothing to escape.Collection: World
The mind's capacity is limitless, and its manifestations are inexhaustible. Seeing forms with your eyes, hearing sounds with your ears, smelling odors with your nose, tasting flavors with your tongue, every movement or state is all your mind.Collection: Eye
Freeing oneself from words is liberation.Collection: Liberation
Don't hate life and death or love life and death. Keep your every thought free of delusion, and in life you'll witness the beginning of nirvana, and in death you'll experience the assurance of no rebirth.Collection: Life
Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.Collection: Mean
The Buddha is your real body, your original mind. This mind has no form or characteristics, no cause or effect, no tendons or bones. It's like space. You can't hold it. It's not the mind of materialists or nihilists. If you don't see your own miraculously aware nature, you'll never find a Buddha, even if you break your body into atoms.Collection: Wisdom
If we should be blessed by some great reward, such as fame or fortune, it's the fruit of a seed planted by us in the past.Collection: Blessed
As mortals, we're ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.Collection: Conditions
A buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad. Such is his power that karma can't hold him. No matter what kind of karma, a buddha transforms it. Heaven and hell are nothing to him. But the awareness of a mortal is dim compared to that of a buddha, who penetrates everything, inside and out.Collection: Karma
When mortals are alive, they worry about death. When they're full, they worry about hunger. Theirs is the Great Uncertainty. But sages don't consider the past. And they don't worry about the future. Nor do they cling to the present. And from moment to moment they follow the Way.Collection: Past
Everything good and bad comes from your own mind. To find something beyond the mind is impossible.Collection: Mind
Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.Collection: Sex
The Way is basically perfect. It doesn't require perfecting. The Way has no form or sound. It's subtle and hard to perceive. It's like when you drink water: you know how hot or cold it is, but you can't tell others.Collection: Wisdom
The mind is always present. You just don't see it.Collection: Mind
Unless you see your nature, you shouldn't go around criticizing the goodness of others. There's no advantage in deceiving yourself. Good and bad are distinct. Cause and effect are clear. But fools don't believe and fall straight into a hell of endless darkness without even knowing it. What keeps them from believing is the heaviness of their karma. They're like blind people who don't believe there's such a thing as light. Even if you explain it to them, they still don't believe, because they're blind. How can they possibly distinguish light?Collection: Karma
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.Collection: Wise
Externally keep yourself away from all relationships, and internally have no pantings in your heart; when your mind is like unto a straight-standing wall, you may enter into the Path.Collection: Wall
To go from mortal to Buddha, you have to put an end to karma, nurture your awareness, and accept what life brings.Collection: Life
But deluded people don't realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside.Collection: People
Leaving behind the false, return to the true: make no discriminations between self and others. In contemplation, one's mind should be stable and unmoving, like a wall.Collection: Wall