Dharma Quotes - Page 3

• Have your life properly aligned with dharma. The technicalities of the movement of the kundalini are easy to master. Dharma is much more complex.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Movement, Easy

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• What I found particularly fascinating and satisfying about the Hindu tradition was its spirit of inclusiveness. In Sanatan Dharma, or what is commonly called Hinduism, I discovered the basic truths of all religions in a way that the oneness of God and religion is comprehensively understood.

  Radhanath Swami

  Oneness, Way, Spirit

  "Becoming Hindu and Finding the Essence of All Spiritual Paths" by Radhanath Swami, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 10, 2011.

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• If you perform your work viewing it as your dharma, your actions become sacred.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Sacred, Action, Ifs

  Twitter post from May 17, 2015

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

  Bodhidharma

  People, Mind, Realizing

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.25, Macmillan

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• The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.

  Bodhidharma

  Anger, Passion, Ignorant Masses

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• Dharma is another name for existence. It is existence in its purest form.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Names, Form

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

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Unhappy, Disaster

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• Obviously the dharma is every breath we take, every thought we think, every word we speak, if we do it with awareness and an open, caring heart.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Heart, Caring, Thinking

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• The dharma is the most precious thing in the world and we should put it at the center of our hearts and transform our whole lives into dharma practice. Otherwise, at the time of death, we will look back and say, now what was all that about? If we truly want to benefit others and ourselves, we have to do it. No excuses.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Heart, Practice, Looks

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

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Purity, Form

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• For the dharma to become firsthand knowledge-to feel the ‘ouch’ of it-you have to live intimately with it, hold it up to scrutiny, and let it hold you up to scrutiny. In the end, the ball is always thrown back to you: ‘Be a lamp unto yourself,’ says the Buddha. In other words, you must ultimately find the way on your own, by putting your ideas of the truth to the test. Your questions light the way.

  Larry Rosenberg

  Light, Ideas, Lamps

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• I just kind of understood it, and I threw my love for others and love for life into the character, and was having a blast. I loved playing Dharma. I loved it!

  Jenna Elfman

  Love Life, Character, And Love

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My first encounter with Buddhist dharma would be in my early 20s. Like most young men, I was not particularly happy.

  Richard Gere

  Buddhist, Men, Would Be

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• To enter by reason means to realize the essence through instruction and to believe that all living things share the same true nature, which isn't apparent because it's shrouded by sensation and delusion.

  Bodhidharma

  Believe, Mean, Essence

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.3, Macmillan

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• True zazen is surrendering every moment. But surrendering to what? It really does not matter what we call it: God or the Tao or the Dharma or the Buddha or our true nature. . . . It is the act of letting go, of surrendering, that matters. The very act of letting go opens us up completely.

  Dennis Merzel

  Letting Go, Nature, Taoism

  Dennis Genpo Merzel (1991). “The Eye Never Sleeps”, p.49, Shambhala Publications

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• 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

  Character, People, Fans

  TV.com Interview, www.tv.com. June 14, 2006.

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• Many people are benefiting beings, but from a dharma point of view, if you are a dharma practitioner, then the first priority is to get yourself together.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Views, People, Priorities

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

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Matter, Moral, Following

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• 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

  Inspiring, Character, Thinking

  Interview with Lila Holland, www.tv.com. June 14, 2006.

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• Those who read books cannot understand the teachings and, what's more, may even go astray. But those who try to observe the things going on in the mind, and always take that which is true in their own minds as their standard, never get muddled. They are able to comprehend suffering, and ultimately will understand Dharma. Then, they will understand the books they read.

  Buddhadasa

  Book, Teaching, Mind

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• The art of dharma practice requires commitment, technical accomplishment, and imagination. As with all arts, we will fail to realize its full potential if any of these three are lacking. The raw material of dharma practice is ourself and our world, which are to be understood and transformed according to the vision and values of the dharma itself. This is not a process of self- or world- transcendence, but one of self- and world- creation.

  Stephen Batchelor

  Art, Commitment, Our World

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• 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

  Buddhism, Humanity, Suffering

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• Lord Krishna... proclaims Self-realization, true wisdom, as the highest branch of all human knowledge-the king of all sciences, the very essence of dharma ("religion")-for it alone permanently uproots the cause of man's threefold suffering and reveals to him his true nature of Bliss. Self-realization is yoga or "oneness" with truth-the direct perception or experience of truth by the all-knowing intuitive faculty of the soul.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Kings, Yoga, Men

  Paramahansa Yogananda (2007). “God Talks With Arjuna”, p.750, Diamond Pocket Books (P) Ltd.

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• If you lose interest in the dharma, then you might be reborn in a place where you are unlikely to meet with the dharma. And then you're completely off the path.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Might, Path, Unlikely

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• 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

  Buddhism, Individual, Collectives

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