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
land mind pure
If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.
mind
The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.
mind looks use
If you use your mind to look for a Buddha, you won't see the Buddha.
success mind conditions
But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.
mind doubt path
But when you first embark on the Path, your awareness won't be focused. You're likely to see all sorts of strange, dreamlike scenes. But you shouldn't doubt that all such scenes come from your own mind and nowhere else.
real mind body
The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.
mind
Without the mind there is no Buddha. Without the Buddha there's no mind.
real uprising mind
Whoever knows that the mind is a fiction and devoid of anything real knows that his own mind neither exists nor doesn't exist.
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.
mind impossible good-and-bad
Everything good and bad comes from your own mind. To find something beyond the mind is impossible.
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.
nature clouds mind
If you see your nature, you don't need to read sutras or invoke buddhas. Erudition and knowledge are not only useless but also cloud your awareness. Doctrines are only for pointing to the mind. Once you see your mind, why pay attention to doctrines?