As long as you're enthralled by a lifeless form, you're not free.

- Bodhidharma

Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.

- Bodhidharma

To have a body is to suffer.

- Bodhidharma

Your nature is the Buddha.

- Bodhidharma

Words are illusions.

- Bodhidharma

Whoever knows that the mind is a fiction and devoid of anything real knows that his own mind neither exists nor doesn't exist.

- Bodhidharma

Buddhas don't practice nonsense.

- Bodhidharma

If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.

- Bodhidharma

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

- Bodhidharma

As mortals, we're ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.

- Bodhidharma

Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.

- Bodhidharma

And the Buddha is the person who's free: free of plans, free of cares.

- Bodhidharma

All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.

- Bodhidharma

All phenomena are empty.

- Bodhidharma

To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.

- Bodhidharma

The Way is basically perfect. It doesn't require perfecting.

- Bodhidharma

But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.

- Bodhidharma

People who don't see their nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are lairs and fools.

- Bodhidharma

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

- Bodhidharma

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.

- Bodhidharma