Bodhidharma

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.

Freeing oneself from words is liberation.

Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.

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.

A Buddha doesn__ observe precepts. A Buddha doesn__ do good or evil. A Buddha isn__ energetic or lazy. A Buddha is someone who does nothing, someone who can__ even focus his mind on a Buddha. A Buddha isn__ a Buddha. Don__ think about Buddhas.

Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen.

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.

The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.

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

Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.

Life and death are important. Don't suffer them in vain.

Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher's help.

Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.

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

All know the way few actually walk it.

But deluded people don't realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside.

People of this world are deluded. They__e always longing for something-always, in a word, seeking. But the wise wake up. They choose reason over custom. They fix their minds on the sublime and let their bodies change with the seasons. All phenomena are empty. They contain nothing worth desiring.

The mind is the root from which all things grow if you can understand the mind, everything else is included. It__ like the root of a tree. All a tree__ fruit and flowers, branches and leaves depend on its root. If you nourish its root, a tree multiplies. If you cut its root, it dies. Those who understand the mind reach enlightenment with minimal effort.