Bodhidharma

“The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.”

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

“All phenomena are empty. They are without characteristics. To see this is to see the Buddha.”

“To find a Buddha, you have to see your nature.”

“Not creating delusions is enlightenment.”

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

“Many roads lead to the path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.”

“To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.”

“The essence of the Way is detachment.”

“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.”

“Buddha is your own mind. Make no mistake.”

“The mind is the root from which all things grow. If you can understand the mind, everything else is included.”

“Once you stop clinging and let things be, you'll be free, even of birth and death.”

“When you don't understand, you depend on reality. When you do understand, reality depends on you.”

“The ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They're not the Way.”

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

“A Buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.”

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

“Freeing oneself from words is liberation.”

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