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
teacher teaching helping
Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher's help.
karma believe fall
Unless you see your nature, you shouldn't go around criticizing the goodness of others. There's no advantage in deceiving yourself. Good and bad are distinct. Cause and effect are clear. But fools don't believe and fall straight into a hell of endless darkness without even knowing it. What keeps them from believing is the heaviness of their karma. They're like blind people who don't believe there's such a thing as light. Even if you explain it to them, they still don't believe, because they're blind. How can they possibly distinguish light?
sacred
Everything sacred, nothing sacred.
wall heart advice
Externally keep yourself away from all relationships, and internally have no pantings in your heart; when your mind is like unto a straight-standing wall, you may enter into the Path.
soul ego birth
This one life has no form and is empty by nature. If you become attached by any form, you should reject it. If you see an ego, a soul, a birth, or a death, reject them all.
dharma
To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.
life mind
Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.
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.
life hate rebirth
Don't hate life and death or love life and death. Keep your every thought free of delusion, and in life you'll witness the beginning of nirvana, and in death you'll experience the assurance of no rebirth.
long form lifeless
As long as you're enthralled by a lifeless form, you're not free.
liberation oneself
Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
doctrine way tao
The ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They're not the Way.
blessing kind-deeds evil
According to the Sutras, evil deeds result in hardships and good deeds result in blessings.
karma
Regardless of what we do, our karma has no hold on us.