Quotes by Bodhidharma

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

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.

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

All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.

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

Life and death are important. Don’t suffer them in vain.

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

The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.