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    Bodhidharma

    Read through the most famous quotes from Bodhidharma




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


    — Bodhidharma

    #deluded #keep #mind #outside #own

    All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions. ↗


    — Bodhidharma

    #depend #experience #joy #suffering

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


    — Bodhidharma

    #birth #death #enlightenment #long #never

    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. ↗


    — Bodhidharma

    #fame #fortune #fruit #great #great reward

    Freeing oneself from words is liberation. ↗


    — Bodhidharma

    #liberation #oneself #words

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


    — Bodhidharma

    #else #long #look #mind #never

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


    — Bodhidharma

    #depend #failure #mind #neither #nor

    You can't know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself. ↗


    — Bodhidharma

    #know #long #mind #real #you

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


    — Bodhidharma

    #perfect #perfecting #require #way

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


    — Bodhidharma

    #becomes #enlightened #help #million #only






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    Did you know about Bodhidharma?

    Tanlin's original is imprecise about Bodhidharma's travels saying only that he "crossed distant mountains and seas" before arriving in Wei. "

    After Bodhidharma left the Emperor asked the official in charge of the Imperial Annals about the encounter. "
    The Emperor regretted his having let Bodhidharma leave and was going to dispatch a messenger to go and beg Bodhidharma to return.

    He is referred as "The Blue-Eyed Barbarian" (碧眼胡) in Chinese Chan texts. Modern scholarship dates him to about the early 5th century. Two popular traditions exist regarding Bodhidharma's origins.

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