Top 100 Quotes About Dharma
#2. If you have humility, you are willing to undertake anything to spread the dharma.
Frederick Lenz
#3. In brief, without being mindful of death, whatever Dharma practices you take up will be merely superficial.
Milarepa
#4. The whole universe in all directions is the Flower of Dharma.* All Buddhas everywhere and all enlightened beings twirl and are twirled by the Flower of Dharma.
Brad Warner
#6. When you meditate you can stand back from your desire. When you silence the mind and there is stillness, only then can you tell if a desire is dharma.
Frederick Lenz
#7. There is a dharma for yourself, for someone else, for a family, for a nation, for a universe. There are collective and individual dharmas.
Frederick Lenz
#8. Our conduct determines our fate, not our birth
Rohit Omar
#9. The fundamental human values all emanate from Dharma, based on Truth. If human behaviour has no such basis, it leads to disaster.
Sathya Sai Baba
#10. Your dharma is what kind of work you should be doing, what kind of people you should associate with, whether you should have a teacher or not. Dharma encompasses all things and it is specific to the individual.
Frederick Lenz
#11. Don't worry. These poses have nothing to do with meditation or enlightenment.
Dharma Mittra
#12. There's no path to liberation that doesn't pass through the shadow.
Jay Michaelson
#13. The purpose of dharma is to help your mind to expand, to grow, to clarify. It should uphold us and create an inner sense of peace, joy, and clarity.
Tenzin Palmo
#14. Let the skin be like water, let the flesh hang from the bones.
Dharma Mittra
#15. Where slightest of conflict exists, there is neither God nor Religion.
Dada Bhagwan
#16. Be it known that Men of dull faculties and slight wisdom, They who cling proudly to signs, Cannot believe in this Dharma. Now I, joyfully and fearlessly, In the midst of the bodhisattvas Frankly casting aside my expedient devices, Merely preach the Unexcelled Path.
Gautama Buddha
#17. Never sit under a tree waiting for the apple to fall. Climb the tree, grab that apple!
When it comes, never be inert and take your time, TIME TO MOVE!
Tsem Tulku Rinpoche
#18. To increase the flow of kundalini that will alter our perception, it is necessary to clarify the purpose of one's being. This is to come to understand dharma.
Frederick Lenz
#19. Friends in the Dharma, be satisfied with your own heads. Do not put any false heads above your own. Then, minute after minute, watch your step closely.
Nyogen Senzaki
#20. See yourself in the practice you are not able to access right now. Imagine yourself in it.
Dharma Mittra
#21. How do you think the Dharma is able to describe the death process in such detail? It's not a whole bunch of lamas sit around speculating on what might happen. It's because they actually go through it. Frequently.
David Michie
#22. I believe it is my dharma to not get inoculated because God ordains who will be diseased and who will be healthy. You obviously believe it is your dharma to inoculate me. Now it is over and you are guests in my home. This is the least I can offer you.
Deepak Chopra
#23. No true Dharma Master behaves with rage, hate, ranting, self- importance. These are signs of mental instability, a character flaw. Never follow such a one as that.
Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo
#24. The average human looks without seeing, listens without hearing, touches without feeling, eats without tasting, inhales without smelling, and talks without thinking." - Leonardo da Vinci Benefits
Dharma Hazari
#25. In Hinduism, dharma means realizing our potential: changing ourselves into the best we theoretically can be. What is that? Humans
Devdutt Pattanaik
#26. For a warrior, nothing is higher than a war against evil. The warrior confronted with such a war should be pleased, Arjuna, for it comes as an open gate to heaven. But if you do not participate in this battle against evil, you will incur sin, violating your dharma and your honor.
Swami Vivekananda
#27. Dharma is not upheld by talking about it. Dharma is upheld by living in harmony with it ...
Gautama Buddha
#28. That which reduces our flawed vision is called religion [dharma]. It is non-religion [adharma] that increases a flawed vision. The worldly life is indeed the result of a flawed vision.
Dada Bhagwan
#29. What can be the dharma at one point in your life can totally reverse itself, and suddenly you might be doing something the opposite or something very new, something you never considered.
Frederick Lenz
#31. Human beings are not so in harmony with the dharma. That is why they suffer so much. But you as an individual can reach a plane of attention and can become attention itself.
Frederick Lenz
#32. Daily sitting is our bread and butter, the basic stuff of dharma. Without it we tend to be confused.
Charlotte Joko Beck
#33. As far as sitcoms go, I thought Jenna Elfman in 'Dharma and Greg' was a wonderful physical comedienne who had great timing.
Carol Burnett
#34. The nature of things is dharma.
Mahavira
#35. Dharma doesn't necessarily mean following a mundane and boring life. It means a life of high adventure, not a life of endless, boring repetition.
Frederick Lenz
#36. The buddha-dharma ... is about directly seeing Truth, prior to forming any ideas about it. It is about responding to each particular situation as it comes ... , not according to some ... program of dos and don'ts.
Steve Hagen
#37. My varnashram dharma teaches me that there must be some significance in the fact of my being born in India instead of in Europe.
Mahatma Gandhi
#39. Going for refuge to Buddha,Dharma, and Sangha means that we apply effort to receiving Buddha's blessings, to putting Dharma into practice, and to receiving help from Sangha.
Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
#40. Never forget how swiftly this life will be over, like a flash of summer lightning or the wave of a hand. Now that you have the opportunity to practice dharma, do not waste a single moment on anything else.
Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
#41. One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.
Jack Kerouac
#42. I never believed in dharma. karma, reincarnation, or any of that spiritual crap, which caused sort of a problem growing up because my parents are devout Hindus.
Sonia Singh
#43. Our ultimate dharma is self-realization. Thoughts and actions that support our spiritual evolution are real dharma.
Mata Amritanandamayi
#44. Religion [Dharma] means to do good for others and non-religion [Adharma] means to hurt others. This is referred to as religion-nonreligion [Dharma-Adharma]. Science is to transcend religion and non-religion.
Dada Bhagwan
#45. Sometimes, sitting there on the cushion failing to watch your breath, it can feel like you're the only weirdo weird enough to be wasting your time in this way. But you're not! There are generations of weirdos, monasteries full of them, and we have the benefit of their accumulated wisdom.
Jay Michaelson
#47. Without morality and ethics there is no religion (dharma), the foundation of religion is morality and ethics.
Dada Bhagwan
#48. Start simply everyday by asking yourself, "What is the dharma today? What should I do? What is right? What does the universe want from me?"
Frederick Lenz
#49. Dharma companions filling mountains, a sangha forms of itself: chanting, sitting ch'an stillness. Looking out from distant city walls, people see only white clouds.
David Hinton
#50. The freedom of the seed is in the attainment of its dharma, its nature and destiny of becoming a tree; it is the non-accomplishment which is its prison.
Anonymous
#52. The future is certain for those who follow dharma. Those who don't follow dharma are pushed back again and again into the net of rebirth. They are drawn back to the same planes of attention, or lower. It could happen to you!
Frederick Lenz
#53. If you determine your course With force or speed, You miss the way of the dharma. Quietly consider What is right and what is wrong. Receiving all opinions equally, Without haste, wisely, Observe the dharma.
Gautama Buddha
#54. Maturity is about Challenging yourself and Improving!
And then taking that experience to help others ...
Tsem Tulku Rinpoche
#55. At the last stages of the journey, there's no journey at all.
Jay Michaelson
#56. You are dharma. You are a wheel. And the wheel of dharma spins.
Frederick Lenz
#57. The Sanskrit word for awareness is smriti, which no one can pronounce. This may explain why awareness has not become as well-known in the west as karma, dharma, and nirvana.
George K. Ilsley
#58. That which frees one from bondage is the right religion.
Dada Bhagwan
#59. My first encounter with Buddhist dharma would be in my early 20s. Like most young men, I was not particularly happy.
Richard Gere
#60. Part of why I love these angry, straight, white punks is that they are stripping the dharma of its bullshit, and applying it to contexts and styles that, even if they aren't mine, are at least different from the norm.
Jay Michaelson
#61. As long as this belief, 'I am the doer' is not gone, one has not yet attained an iota of exact religion. He is still in the auspicious-inauspicious [shubh-ashubh] state.
Dada Bhagwan
#62. The entire teaching of Buddhism can be summed up in this way: Nothing is worth holding on to.
Jack Kornfield
#63. I am only here to share my knowledge with others and to help them make rapid progress on the path of yoga.
Dharma Mittra
#64. I was 3 when I told my mom that I knew what my dharma was and that I wanted to be an actor.
Brie Larson
#65. For the first five years of my life, I grew up in a log cabin in coastal British Columbia in a very small town, like 300 people, mostly hippies. No running water, no electricity. When I was 12, I changed my name from Dharma to Stewart. At that age, you just want to be normal.
Stewart Butterfield
#67. Dharma is easiest to spot by its absence: the Mahabharata employs the pedagogical technique of teaching about dharma via its opposite, adharma
Gurcharan Das
#68. A great gift - a gift of Dharma conquers all gifts.
Gautama Buddha
#70. I have the True Dharma Eye, the Marvelous Mind of Nirvana, the True Form of the Formless, and the Subtle Dharma Gate, independent of words and transmitted beyond doctrine. This I have entrusted to Mahakashyapa.
Gautama Buddha
#71. Right now we have obtained a human rebirth and have the opportunity to attain enlightenment through Dharma practice, so if we waste this precious opportunity in meaningless activities there is no greater loss and no greater foolishness.
Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
#72. The apple tree never asks the beech how he shall grow, nor the lion, the horse, how he shall take his prey.
William Blake
#73. Reduce your wants and lead a happy and contented life. Never hurt the feelings of others and be kind to all. Think of God as soon as you get up and when you go to bed.
Dharma Mittra
#75. Too often in the west we fail to realize that even in eastern disciplines the spiritual life is not meant as an escape from the worldly life. There is karma to be fulfilled on earth, within the dharma of necessity.
James Hillman
#76. What is the nature of the Self (Soul)? To 'see' the dharma (function) of everything, to see 'who is performing what function, and how that function is being performed.' To 'see' it, is called the function of the Self (Soul).
Dada Bhagwan
#77. I manifested in a dreamlike way to dreamlike beings and gave a dreamlike Dharma, but in reality I never taught and never actually came.
Gautama Buddha
#78. Change affects only the form of a thing, not its substance.
Dharma
#79. Success is not success in an individual endeavor. Success is simply to practice the dharma impeccably.
Frederick Lenz
#81. If you open your heart and become like a child, you will always be blissful, always content.
Dharma Mittra
#82. Dharma is another name for existence. It is existence in its purest form.
Frederick Lenz
#83. Now to understand the significance of chastity within us, we have to know that chastity is the foundation of all dharmas. Unless and until you have sense of chastity you cannot have dharma.
Nirmala Srivastava
#84. Time is a device to stop everything from happening at once ... space is a device to stop everything from happening in Cambridge.
Dharma Kumar
#85. Always remember that Nature refuses to be rushed. She can only be made to evolve and that takes time, so take heart.
Dharma Mittra
#86. Dharma practice means physical hardship; it means that you shouldn't be pansies about it. You should exert yourselves wholeheartedly to engage in the practice, so that it will affect your body, speech, and mind.
Ngagpa Yeshe Dorje
#87. When you are not following dharma, then you will not be at peace. You will not be happy. The simplest things will seem to be endless obstacles.
Frederick Lenz
#88. Religion [dharma] originates where there is doer-ship [to do], Moksha [ultimate liberation] originates where there is understanding (to understand).
Dada Bhagwan
#89. Today, society is sacrificing love, values and dharma in its pursuit of materialistic gains.
Mata Amritanandamayi
#90. Purity is the ability to see dharma in its manifold forms in any plane or loka.
Frederick Lenz
#91. Do what helps others.
Refrain from harming others.
Transcend your own ignorance, clinging, hate, fear and delusion.
This and only this is the dispensation of all the Buddhas.
Paul R. Fleischman
#92. Dharma is in your mind, not in the forest. Don't believe others, just listen to your mind. You don't have to go anywhere else. Wisdom is in yourself, just like a sweet ripe mango is already in a young green one.
Ajahn Chah
#93. If you perform your work viewing it as your dharma, your actions become sacred.
Mata Amritanandamayi
#94. All relaxation does is allow the truth to be felt. The mind is cleared, like a dirty window wiped clean, and the magnitude of what we might ordinarily take for granted inspires tears.
Jay Michaelson
#95. Hindu Dharma is like a boundless ocean teeming with priceless gems. The deeper you dive the more treasures you find.
Mahatma Gandhi
#96. Had Tibet not fallen away from dharma China could not have invaded.
Dalai Lama
#97. Do not perform an action for the reward it may bring. Perform it because it is right; it is dharma.
Shelley Schanfield
#98. Sometimes you think you are 100% right, but you are 100% wrong!
Dharma Mittra
#99. The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure. By this truth, all appearances are empty.
Bodhidharma
#100. In varying degrees, the authority of the dharma was replaced by the authority of the guru, who came, in some traditions, to assume the role of the Buddha himself.
Stephen Batchelor
