Bodhidharma
Bodhidharma
Bodhidharma was a Buddhist monk who lived during the 5th or 6th century. He is traditionally credited as the transmitter of Chan Buddhism to China, and regarded as its first Chinese patriarch. According to Chinese legend, he also began the physical training of the monks of Shaolin Monastery that led to the creation of Shaolin Kung Fu. In Japan, he is known as Daruma...
NationalityIndian
ProfessionLeader
CountryIndia
blessing kind-deeds evil
According to the Sutras, evil deeds result in hardships and good deeds result in blessings.
understanding mind vision
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.
suffering body
To have a body is to suffer.
truth break-through understanding
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. . . .
sex
Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.
wind joy path
Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.
understanding way dharma
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.
sacred
Everything sacred, nothing sacred.
mind impossible good-and-bad
Everything good and bad comes from your own mind. To find something beyond the mind is impossible.
dharma
To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.
roots mind grows
The mind is the root from which all things grow. If you can understand the mind, everything else is included.
life mind
Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.
people mind realizing
But deluded people don't realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside.
people meditation understanding
But people of the deepest understanding look within, distracted by nothing. Since a clear mind is the Buddha, they attain the understanding of a Buddha without using the mind.