Dharma Quotes - Page 7

• Love is the bridge that joins all the worlds together. Love permits us to see who and what we are. The only thing that will truly inspire us to find the dharma is love.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Love Is, Together Love

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• The future of Dharma is in women's hands now because they have this energy which was never really tapped.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Hands, Energy

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• In Buddhism, there are three gems: Buddha, the awakened one; Dharma,
  the way of understanding and loving; and Sangha, the community that
  lives in harmony and awareness. The three are interrelated, and at
  times it is hard to distinguish one from another. In everyone there
  is the capacity to wake up, to understand, and to love. So in
  ourselves we find Buddha, and we also find Dharma and Sangha.

  Nhat Hanh

  Buddhism, Community, Understanding

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Being Peace”, p.15, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Joining the Sangha and renouncing worldly life is necessary in order to devote your whole life and all your energies toward the Dharma.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Order, Worldly Life, Energy

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• 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

  Adventure, Mean, Buddhism

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• In Dharma practice, the most important thing is to be very sincere.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Practice, Important, Sincere

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• So long as man is capable of Prema, Dharma will exist, do not doubt it. When that Prema is fixed on the Lord, your mental make-up will slowly and steadily undergo a revolutionary change; then, man will share in the sorrows and joys of his fellow-beings; thereafter he contacts the very source of the Bliss that is beyond the temporary gains and losses of this world.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Loss, Men, Long

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• It is acceptance of the will of God - waiting, if necessary, forever, happily rising above your desires and above your frustrations to always do what is right. Always do what is right. This is the spiritual study.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Buddhism, Acceptance

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• I think it would help if, when people are first ordained, they underwent a period of strict training, maybe for several years. During this time they would learn basic Buddhist philosophy in a monastic community where all the teaching and training was directed toward living a perfect monastic life and wasn't channeled out to fit into the lay life - which is what usually happens in Dharma centers where the teachings are directed toward how to live the Dharma in your everyday life.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Buddhist, Philosophy, Teaching

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• We live in a society which is heading in one direction, so it's good to have at least a few friends who share the same values and can encourage us and help us to remember that we're not alone or peculiar, but that what we're doing is a very valid way of life. This will encourage us to put the Dharma at the centre of our life and not the periphery, to use our daily life as our Dharma practice.

  Tenzin Palmo

  One Direction, Practice, Peculiar

  Source: studybuddhism.com

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• All of the external circumstances and the rude and difficult people we meet, instead of getting angry, upset, or frustrated, we see that we can take them all and use them on the path in a way that actually invigorates and strengthens us, rather than defeats us. It's all very practical advice, and that's why I talk a lot about how to make our daily life into Dharma practice, otherwise it's easy to feel hopeless and helpless.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Practice, People, Advice

  Source: studybuddhism.com

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• Thich Nhat Hanh has the ability to express some of the most profound teachings of interdependence and emptiness I've ever heard. With the eloquence of a poet, he holds up a sheet of paper and teaches us that the rain cloud and the tree and the logger who cut the tree down are all there in the paper. He's been one of the most significant carriers of the lamp of the dharma to the West that we have had.

  Jack Kornfield

  Rain, Teaching, Cutting

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• Just entering into the dharma and taking refuge and bodhisattva vows is a tremendous amount of merit, but we need more and more and more.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Needs, Entering, Merit

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• Every country that meets Buddhism molds it into their own indigenous religion, as America will. A very clear example of this is Japan, which threw out almost all the dharma, and just kept that essence, which spoke to them.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Country, Buddhism, Japan

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• Most of the people I talk to are not going to go off and live in a cave. Why should they? So I talk about how people can stop separating dharma practice - going on retreats, going to dharma centers, hearing talks, reading books - from their ordinary life.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Book, Reading, Practice

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• If you don't find that people find you're easier to live with than you were before, if you don't find that your heart is feeling warmer toward others and if your negative emotions are not getting any better, then there's something wrong. That is always the touchstone of the Dharma practice.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Heart, Practice, People

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• We have met with the dharma. Many of us have met with teachers. We do have some idea of what to do and how to practice. And we should not be lazy.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Teacher, Practice, Ideas

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• Sathya, Dharma, Shanghai and prema are the hall-marks of a purified heart, a heart where God is enshrined and is manifest.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Heart, Mark, Shanghai

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• I was born in England and brought up in London. When I was 18 I read a book and came across the Dharma. I was halfway through the book when I turned to my mother and said, "I'm a Buddhist," to which she replied, "Oh are you dear? Well finish the book and then you can tell me about it." I realised I'd always been Buddhist but I just hadn't known it existed, because in those days not even the word 'Buddha' was ever spoken. This was in in the 1960s, so there wasn't that much available, even in London.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Mother, Buddhist, Book

  Source: studybuddhism.com

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• Perhaps Westerners are in a better position to practice true renunciation than uneducated Orientals because most Western people, by the time they come to the Dharma, have led a pretty full worldly life with lots of sensual pleasures, money and lots of toys to play with. They have seen that the path of accumulation of worldly treasure does not lead to happiness or contentment. That's why they come to the Dharma.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Practice, Play, People

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• Dharma Bums refusing to subscribe to the general demand that they consume production and therefore have to work for the privilege of consuming, all that cramp they didn't really want anyway such as refrigerators, TV sets, cars, at least new fancy cars, certain hair oils and deodorants and general junk you finally always see a week later in the garbage anyway, all of them imprisoned in a system of work, produce, consume, work, produce, consume.

  Jack Kerouac

  Hair, Fancy Cars, Oil

  "The Dharma Bums". Book by Jack Kerouac, Ch. 13, 1958.

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• Better than a thousand hollow words Is one word that brings peace. Better than a thousand hollow verses Is one verse that brings peace. Better than a hundred hollow lines Is one line of the dharma, bringing peace. It is better to conquer yourself Than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, Not by angels or by demons, Heaven or hell.

  Gautama Buddha

  Taken, Angel, Winning

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• 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

  Self, Perfect, Enlightenment

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• 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

  Meditation, Missing, Receiving

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• A great gift - a gift of Dharma conquers all gifts.

  Gautama Buddha

  Meditation, Conquer, Great Gifts

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