Quotes About The Dharma

#1. If you have humility, you are willing to undertake anything to spread the dharma.

Frederick Lenz

#2. 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

#3. The dharma is a universal medicine.

Jack Kornfield

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. There's no path to liberation that doesn't pass through the shadow.

Jay Michaelson

#8. 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

#9. Let the skin be like water, let the flesh hang from the bones.

Dharma Mittra

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. See yourself in the practice you are not able to access right now. Imagine yourself in it.

Dharma Mittra

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. In Hinduism, dharma means realizing our potential: changing ourselves into the best we theoretically can be. What is that? Humans

Devdutt Pattanaik

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. There is a time to be still in the pose.

Dharma Mittra

#23. 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

#24. Daily sitting is our bread and butter, the basic stuff of dharma. Without it we tend to be confused.

Charlotte Joko Beck

#25. The nature of things is dharma.

Mahavira

#26. 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

#27. 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

#28. My Dharma is the practice of nonpractice.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#29. 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

#30. One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.

Jack Kerouac

#31. 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

#32. Without morality and ethics there is no religion (dharma), the foundation of religion is morality and ethics.

Dada Bhagwan

#33. 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

#34. 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

#35. 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

#36. 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

#37. At the last stages of the journey, there's no journey at all.

Jay Michaelson

#38. You are dharma. You are a wheel. And the wheel of dharma spins.

Frederick Lenz

#39. 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

#40. That which frees one from bondage is the right religion.

Dada Bhagwan

#41. 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

#42. 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

#43. The entire teaching of Buddhism can be summed up in this way: Nothing is worth holding on to.

Jack Kornfield

#44. I am only here to share my knowledge with others and to help them make rapid progress on the path of yoga.

Dharma Mittra

#45. 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

#46. Dharma is easiest to spot by its absence: the Mahabharata employs the pedagogical technique of teaching about dharma via its opposite, adharma

Gurcharan Das

#47. 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

#48. 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

#49. The apple tree never asks the beech how he shall grow, nor the lion, the horse, how he shall take his prey.

William Blake

#50. 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

#51. 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

#52. 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

#53. Change affects only the form of a thing, not its substance.

Dharma

#54. Success is not success in an individual endeavor. Success is simply to practice the dharma impeccably.

Frederick Lenz

#55. 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

#56. 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

#57. 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

#58. Purity is the ability to see dharma in its manifold forms in any plane or loka.

Frederick Lenz

#59. 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

#60. 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

#61. 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

#62. Hindu Dharma is like a boundless ocean teeming with priceless gems. The deeper you dive the more treasures you find.

Mahatma Gandhi

#63. Do not perform an action for the reward it may bring. Perform it because it is right; it is dharma.

Shelley Schanfield

#64. The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure. By this truth, all appearances are empty.

Bodhidharma

#65. 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

#66. This is the only advanced pose (Firefly Pose) I know that you can run away from the police in.

Dharma Mittra

#67. The whole world believes that performing good deeds is dharma (religion). Performing good deeds is known as laukik dharma (worldly religion, that religion which does not lead us to self-realization but binds merit karmas).

Dada Bhagwan

#68. We are animals descended from five billion years of wanting, striving, and seeking. And life just doesn't cooperate. So we suffer. And so the solution to that problem is to upgrade our minds, in a distinctly 'unnatural' way, so that the mind clings less and lets go more.

Jay Michaelson

#69. While 'Buddhism' suggests another belief system, 'dharma practice' suggests a course of action. The four ennobling truths are not propositions to believe; they are challenges to act.

Stephen Batchelor

#70. The higher nature in man always seeks for something which transcends itself and yet is its deepest truth; which claims all its sacrifice, yet makes this sacrifice its own recompense. This is man's dharma, man's religion, and man's self is the vessel.

Rabindranath Tagore

#71. The masters only point the way. But if you meditate And follow the dharma You will free yourself from desire. 'Everything arises and passes away.' When you see this, you are above sorrow. This is the shining way.

Gautama Buddha

#72. According to leading researchers, however, only about 10 to 15 percent of cancers are genetic in origin; the rest are caused by a combination of environmental and lifestyle factors.

Dharma Singh Khalsa

#73. The Buddha's dharma didn't teach peace and relaxation; it taught awakening - often rude awakening.

Jay Michaelson

#74. Though through all his life a fool associates with a wise man, he yet understands not the Dharma, as the spoon, the flavor of soup.

Gautama Buddha

#75. An agnostic Buddhist would not regard the Dharma as a source of answers to questions of where we came from, where we are going, what happens after death. He would seek such knowledge in the appropriate domains: astrophysics, evolutionary biology, neuroscience, etc.

Stephen Batchelor

#76. There is the physical mind which is mechanical but the awareness which is the essential character (dharma) of the mind is also to some extent present there.

Sri Aurobindo

#77. We yield to none in our love, admiration and respect for the Buddha-the Dharma-the Sangha. They are all ours. Their glories are ours and ours their failures.

Vinayak Damodar Savarkar

#78. Buddham Saranam Gocchami, I take refuge in the Buddha, Sangham, I take refuge in the church, Dhammam, I take refuge in the Dharma, the truth.

Jack Kerouac

#79. Because a human being is endowed with empathy, he violates the natural order if he does not reach out to those who need care. Responding to this empathy, one is in harmony with the order of things, with dharma; otherwise, one is not.

Dayananda Saraswati

#80. Because not even the least Dharma is there found or got at. Therefore is it called 'utmost, right and perfect enlightenment'. Self-identical is that Dharma and nothing is therein at variance. Therefore is it called 'utmost, right and perfect enlighten'

Gautama Buddha

#81. When the mind is exhausted of images, it invents its own.

Gary Snyder

#82. Everyone in advanced meditation practice should be involved with the economic support of the spread of the dharma. We live in a material world, and it's very expensive to teach meditation.

Frederick Lenz

#83. All my editors since Malcolm Cowley have had instructions to leave my prose exactly as I wrote it. In the days of Malcolm Cowley, with 'On the Road' and 'The Dharma Bums', I had no power to stand by my style for better or for worse.

Jack Kerouac

#84. If the kundalini is flowing through you at a very rapid rate, if you are not in harmony with the dharma, then you will have great problems with the study.

Frederick Lenz

#85. If we want to eliminate bad qualities like hatred, envy, pride and ostentation, we have to employ Sathya, Dharma, Santhi and Prema and Ahimsa as the cleaning instruments.

Sathya Sai Baba

#86. The heart wants to go on; that is its dharma. For unless it moves, it dies.

Rabindranath Tagore

#87. Meditate well so you can be a good instrument of eternity. You could have a mediocre meditation today, but you're not going to. Today you might run into someone who you might talk to about the dharma.

Frederick Lenz

#88. And I'm so excited to remind people and even gain new fans who find out about Dharma - a new generation who could find out about Dharma and enjoy her and all the characters on the show.

Jenna Elfman

#89. The person who understands Dharma will have the opposite reaction to a "hard" job. That person will be eager to get started, no matter what kind of work is in front of her, because she understands that she's doing God's work. And when you're working for God, nothing is too hard.

Russell Simmons

#90. When you are doing things together, you are inside the collective mind, and share psychic knowledge with each other. That is how you become one.

Dharma Mittra

#91. If you offer them some sugarcane, even elephants can do this, sometimes on the first try.

Dharma Mittra

#92. If you are following the dharma no matter what you do it is moral.

Robert M. Pirsig

#93. Saints and ordinary folks are the same from the start. Inquiring about a difference is like asking to borrow string when you've got a good strong rope. Every Dharma is known in the heart.

Hsu Yun

#94. There's many lanes on the highway of enlightenment, they don't have to be on the razor's edge like the yellow line dotted in the middle. Balance is appropriate, not too tight, not too loose, the Middle Way as we call it in Buddhist dharma teachings.

Surya Das

#95. Once in a while an enlightened teacher goes out into the world and spreads the dharma. They attract some attention, and it is a great spectacle to see who and why and what is drawn.

Frederick Lenz

#96. Go into seclusion and rest your mind on the silence.

Dharma Mittra

#97. And as a character, what I found very inspiring about playing Dharma, especially at that time, is that the women on television were more neurotic than they were free. And I thought, this is a rare bird and this is unique on television and I think it's really refreshing.

Jenna Elfman

#98. Not to follow the dharma leads to disaster. Life will be unhappy.

Frederick Lenz

#99. Religion (dharma) is decrease in kashay (anger, pride, deceit and greed) and increase of kashay is irreligion (adharma). When Kashay goes away (completely) is the religion of the Self (Soul).

Dada Bhagwan

#100. While happiness is an end in itself, it is also the state of mind we can have right now.

Sharon Salzberg