Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.
— Bodhidharma
The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.
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.
Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.
Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.
Whoever realizes that the six senses aren't real, that the five aggregates are fictions, that no such things can be located anywhere in the body, understands the language of Buddhas.
The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.
Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will.
Words are illusions.
Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.
Buddhas don't practice nonsense.
Life and death are important. Don't suffer them in vain.
To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.
As long as you're enthralled by a lifeless form, you're not free.
Your mind is nirvana.
All phenomena are empty.
But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.
Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.
The mind is the root from which all things grow if you can understand the mind, everything else is included.
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.
Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.
Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
The essence of the Way is detachment.
Regardless of what we do, our karma has no hold on us.
To go from mortal to Buddha, you have to put an end to karma, nurture your awareness, and accept what life brings.
The Way is basically perfect. It doesn't require perfecting.
The mind is always present. You just don't see it.
And as long as you're subject to birth and death, you'll never attain enlightenment.
And the Buddha is the person who's free: free of plans, free of cares.
As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you'll never see that your own mind is the Buddha.
You can't know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.
The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.
People of this world are deluded. They're always longing for something - always, in a word, seeking.
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.
If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.
Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.
Whoever knows that the mind is a fiction and devoid of anything real knows that his own mind neither exists nor doesn't exist.
Not creating delusions is enlightenment.
To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.
According to the Sutras, evil deeds result in hardships and good deeds result in blessings.
Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.
A Buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.
But deluded people don't realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside.
People who don't see their nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are lairs and fools.
Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher's help.
Your nature is the Buddha.
If you use your mind to look for a Buddha, you won't see the Buddha.
The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.
To have a body is to suffer.
Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.
