Dharma Quotes - Page 10

• Following dharma puts you in a proper field of attention. In a proper field of attention, regardless of what your outer circumstances are, happiness will flow.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Fields, Attention

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• To not follow the dharma, either intentionally or through lack of awareness, creates a very low level of attention. In this low level of attention we make all kinds of mistakes and we are unhappy no matter what good fortune befalls us.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mistake, Buddhism, Unhappy

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• 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

  Buddhism, Obstacles, Endless

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• 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

  Karma, Spiritual, Discipline

  Gopi Krishna, James Hillman (1967). “Kundalini: The Evolutionary Energy in Man”

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• Do not practice buddha-dharma with the thought that it is to benefit others.

  Dogen

  Practice, Benefits

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• There must be something here for me to get or to share or to do. So I have the duty that I do, the dharma that I do - which I love - with my teaching, with my family, my son, my students, my girlfriend.

  Gary Kraftsow

  Girlfriend, Teaching, Son

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• One has to find a balance. I don't say that when you leave it you forget all about the dharma or practice, but there have to be times when you throw yourself into it, and then there are times when you just relax and realize that wherever you go, you cannot get out of the dharma.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Practice, Balance, Relax

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• The Tibetans are good at learning many skillful ways to show that everything we do becomes dharma practice, depending on which kind of approach we use.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Practice, Use, Way

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• Why are we sitting? Why are we practicing? Why are we doing anything? It's not so I can be happy. It's so I can embody the dharma in order to benefit other beings.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Order, Sitting, Benefits

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• I've shared meditation with a lot of hip-hop artists, inmates, and returning war veterans with PTSD, as well. I feel like this dharma, this service is part of my job.

  Russell Simmons

  Jobs, War, Artist

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• Tibetans - at least traditionally - are so totally permeated with the dharma that they don't see any difference between dharma and everyday life, really. And therefore they enjoy it because they don't make a separation.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Differences, Everyday, Separation

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• Pride is a mental factor causing us to feel higher or superior to others. Even our study of dharma can be the occasion for the delusion of pride to arise if we think our understanding is superior to that of everyone else. Pride is harmful because it prevents us from accepting fresh knowledge from a qualified teacher. Just as a pool of water cannot collect on the tip of a mountain, so too a reservoir of understanding cannot be established in a mind falsely elevated by pride.

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

  Teacher, Pride, Thinking

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