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
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CountryIndia
anger passion ignorant-masses
The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.
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.
dust affliction shapes
Our true buddha-nature has no shape. And the dust of affliction has no form.
success mind conditions
But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.
suffering doe body
To have a body is to suffer. Does anyone with a body know peace? Those who understand this detach themselves from all that exists and stop imagining or seeking anything. The sutras say, "To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss." When you seek nothing, you're on the Path.
karma goes-around-comes-around awareness
To go from mortal to Buddha, you have to put an end to karma, nurture your awareness, and accept what life brings.
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.
roots mind grows
The mind is the root from which all things grow. If you can understand the mind, everything else is included.
essence way detachment
The essence of the Way is detachment.
attachment essence practice
The essence of the Way is detachment. And the goal of those who practice is freedom from appearances.
mean awareness mortality
Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.
fall long mind
The awareness of mortals falls short. As long as they're attached to appearances, they're unaware that their minds are empty. And by mistakenly clinging to the appearance of things they lose the Way.
teaching writing ideas
I do not need any writing, since I transmit teaching beyond words and ideas.
believe mean essence
To enter by reason means to realize the essence through instruction and to believe that all living things share the same true nature, which isn't apparent because it's shrouded by sensation and delusion.