Dharma Quotes - Page 6

• If you work an extra ten hours to help spread the dharma, this will cause for much faster progression. You're doing something for a higher cause, for a higher ideal.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Causes, Helping

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• Intent is all-important. Your intent determines what happens to you inwardly, in a karmic sense.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Buddhism, Important

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• Don't worry about techniques. Don't worry about chakras. Instead, concern yourself with finding the dharma and meditate. Then the kundalini will release.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Worry, Technique

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• The perpetuators of the Buddha dharma have a moral responsibility to the rest of humanity to be at the forefront of the change away from blood-letting and killing, and not surreptitiously fostering it because of their lack of will to change their habits or mode of thinking concerning the animal kingdom.

  Bodo Balsys

  Buddhist, Responsibility, Animal

  Bodo Balsys (2006). “Karma and the Rebirth of Consciousness”, Munshirm Manoharlal Pub Pvt Limited

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• By unswerving devotion to Me, a man crosses over three Gunas - I am the Abode of Brahman, Eternal and Immutable, of everlasting Dharma and Absolute Bliss.

  Chinmayananda Saraswati

  Men, Three, Bliss

  "Tarangini, vol. X". Book by Swami Chinmayananda, p. 40,

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• The same Divine Compassion that blessed Dharma; saved Gajendra; restored Kuchela; and stood by Prahlada, has come to the Earth as the Refuge of the refugeless; as the Lord of Peace, Harmony and Righteousness; as the Lord of all the Worlds; as the Sath-Chith-Anandamurthi; and as the Puttaparthi Sathya Sai Sath-Chakravarthi - the King of Kings.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Kings, Blessed, Compassion

  "Sathya Sai Speaks, Volume 26: 1993". Discourses by Sri Sathya Sai Baba (Discourse of October 21, 1993), www.sssbpt.info.

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• Tolerance is a form of generosity and it is a form of wisdom. There is nothing anywhere in the Dharma [Buddhist scriptures] that should ever lead anyone to become intolerant. Our goal as Buddhists is to learn to accept all kinds of people and to help all kinds of people discover the wisdom of the teachings of Shakyamuni Buddha

  Hsing Yun

  Buddhist, Teaching, Goal

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• [Townies] was a great springboard, obviously, because Jenna [Elfman] went from that to Dharma & Greg, and a few years later, Lauren [Graham] went to Gilmore Girls.

  Eric McCormack

  Girl, Years, Lauren

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• As I study both the exoteric and the esoteric schools of Buddhism, they maintain that human beings are endowed with Dharma-nature by birth. If this is the case, why did the Buddhas of all ages - undoubtedly in possession of enlightenment - find it necessary to seek enlightenment and engage in spiritual practice?

  Dogen

  Spiritual, School, Buddhism

  "Eihei Dogen: Mystical Realist". Book by Hee-jin Kim, 2004.

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• The buddha-dharma does not invite us to dabble in abstract notions. Rather, the task it presents us with is to attend to what we actually experience, right in this moment. You don't have to look "over there." You don't have to figure anything out. You don't have to acquire anything. And you don't have to run off to Tibet, or Japan, or anywhere else. You wake up right here. In fact, you can only wake up right here. So you don't have to do the long search, the frantic chase, the painful quest. You're already right where you need to be.

  Steve Hagen

  Running, Buddhism, Japan

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• A way of spreading the dharma is just telling people, sharing with them your experiences. Never push it, never be a missionary. Be completely selfless; realize you're only an instrument of eternity.

  Frederick Lenz

  People, Selfless, Missionary

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• When a builder builds he clears the ground for his new foundations. Then he sees that the basic structure will support the whole. Should we not also clear the mind - at least that part of it that we can reach - of the ruins of past thinking, before building our palace of dharma which will one day reach the sky.

  Christmas Humphreys

  Past, Thinking, Sky

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• Dharma is one and one only. Ahimsa means moksha, and moksha is the realization of Truth.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mean, Moksha, Realization

  Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• 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

  Sweet, Believe, Mind

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• There's something so sweet about being on your yoga mat, whether that be at Jivamukti, Dharma Mittra, or in my living room.

  Stephanie Ellis

  Sweet, Yoga, Rooms

  "Stephanie Ellis on being vegetarian, human trafficking, and taking ownership of your life". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Unlike some of my other dharma brothers who got names that were very long and obscure, and nobody could remember or pronounce, that they didn't like. They wanted to give their names back, but it wasn't like that, it wasn't transactional. He would name some people and say 'you're married', and then they were married, but you know it wasn't really transactional.

  Surya Das

  Brother, Names, Long

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• Beyond learning and unlearning is awareness, and beyond awareness is consciousness, and beyond consciousness is immortality, and beyond immortality is dharma and beyond dharma is nirvana.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Consciousness, Awareness

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• 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

  Loss, Opportunity, Practice

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso (2011). “Modern Buddhism: The Path of Compassion and Wisdom - Volume 1 Sutra”, p.25, Tharpa Publications US

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• 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

  Buddhist, Teaching, Yellow

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• We underestimate the value of patience. It is possible that people might sometimes interrupt our meditation sessions or Dharma study, but they can never take away our opportunity to train in inner virtues such as patience. It is this mental training, rather than outer virtuous activities, that is the essence of Dharma practice.

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

  Opportunity, Essence, Practice

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• When one has a decisive realization of the inherent nature of the mind, which has no ego, it has no sense of duality between oneself and the cup, and a deep sense of interpenetration of the whole dharma. Then whatever we do is spontaneously perfect Buddha activity. And anybody who is even slightly tuned in will get a very deep experience of that.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Perfect, Ego, Mind

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• Ahimsa is the height of Kshatriya dharma as it represents the climax of fearlessness.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Height, Ahimsa, Climax

  Mahatma Gandhi (1941). “The Indian States' Problem”

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

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Humility, Buddhism

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• 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

  Meditation Practice, Support, World

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• Determine where you are and where you wish to be. Then use all of your self-effort to make that happen, following the guiding principles of all the Buddhas and bohisattvas and seekers of the dharma, of enlightenment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Guiding Principles, Self, Effort

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