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
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.
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. . . .
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.
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.
reality opposites understanding
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.
imagine indian-leader nature people practice time
People who don't see their nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are lairs and fools.
space enlightenment trying
Trying to find a buddha or enlightenment is like trying to grab space.
perfect way
The Way is basically perfect. It doesn't require perfecting.
karma wisdom memories
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.
nature practice causes
Unless you see your nature, all this talk about cause & effect is nonsense. Buddhas don't practice nonsense.
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.
joy suffering depends
All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
mortals
Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.