Bodhidharma Way Quotations

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.

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

Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.

All know the way, but few actually walk it.

The true Way is sublime. It can't be expressed in language. Of what use are scriptures? But someone who sees his own nature finds the Way, even if he can't read a word.

The essence of the Way is detachment.

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

Someone who seeks the Way doesn't look beyond himself.