Dharma Quotes - Page 9

• Dharma simply means the right thing in the right place, in the right space.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mean, Buddhism, Space

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• 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

  Buddhism, Attention, Rebirth

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• Have a wonderful sense of humor, particularly about yourself and your own situation. Yet don't simply laugh. Work to change and improve things even though, at times, it seems impossible.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Laughing, Sense Of Humor

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• When you combine the ability to express your unique talent with service to humanity, then you make full use of The Law of Dharma.

  Deepak Chopra

  Unique, Law, Humanity

  Deepak Chopra (2010). “The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams”, p.68, Amber-Allen Publishing

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• 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

  Pride, Envy, Hatred

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• It takes a tremendous amount of merit to meet with the dharma - especially if you have an interest in it.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Merit, Interest, Ifs

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• Regard the heart as a vast field. Use the mind as a plough. Treat the gunas (qualities) as bullocks. Use the intelligence (Viveka) as a whip. With these aids, cultivate the field of your heart. What is the crop that is to be grown in it? Sathya, Dharma, Santhi and Prema are the crops. Bhakthi is the rain, meditation is the manure, Brahmananda is the crop.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Rain, Heart, Meditation

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• The zazen I speak of is not learning meditation. It is simply the Dharma gate of repose and bliss, the practice-realization of totally culminated enlightenment. It is the manifestation of ultimate reality. Traps and snares can never reach it. Once its heart is grasped, you are like the dragon when he gains the water, like the tiger when she enters the mountain. For you must know that just there (in zazen) the right Dharma is manifesting itself and that, from the first, dullness and distraction are struck aside.

  Dogen

  Heart, Reality, Dragons

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• 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

  Fundamentals, Behaviour, Disaster

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• Even a little of dharma saves one from many a pitfall.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Religion, Pitfalls, Littles

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• Inside the treasury of the dharma eye a single grain of dust.

  Dogen

  Eye, Dust, Treasury

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• Truth is man's nature; to be untrue is to be false to one's nature. dharma (Right Action) is the practical application in real life of the ideal of truth. Shanthi (Peace) is the result of Dharma and Preme (Love) is the sffulgence of Shanthi.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Real, Love Is, Men

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• Know that the true dharma emerges of itself [during the practice of zazen], clearing away hindrances and distractions.

  Dogen

  Practice, Distraction, Clearing

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• Hinduism... gave itself no name, because it set itself no sectarian limits; it claimed no universal adhesion, asserted no sole infallible dogma, set up no single narrow path or gate of salvation; it was less a creed or cult than a continuously enlarging tradition of the Godward endeavour of the human spirit. An immense many-sided many-staged provision for a spiritual self-building and self-finding, it had some right to speak of itself by the only name it knew, the eternal religion, Sanatana Dharma.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Spiritual, Self, Names

  "Indian Spirituality and Life - 1" by Sri Aurobindo in "Arya", intyoga.online.fr. August 1919.

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• In transmitting the dharma, there is neither explanation nor teaching; there is neighter hearing nor attainment. Since explanations never really explains, nor are they able to teach, why talk about it? Since listening isn't really hearing or attaining anything, then why listen? But say, since it cannot be explained or heard, how can you enter the Way? But down the bagagge, take of the blinders, and see for yourself that this very place is the valley of the endless spring, this very body is the body of the universe. At such a time, who is it who can accompany this?

  John Daido Loori

  Spring, Teaching, Listening

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• 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

  Europe, India, Facts

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• 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

  Running, Buddhism, Meditation

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• The very best players, when they are practicing, put everything they've got into it. But then they leave it for a while. And it's the same in dharma practice.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Player, Practice, Best Players

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• Very often, in order to bring about stillness we have to be tirelessly active in the outer world. You might suppose this would agitate the mind. It will not, if it is the dharma.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Order, Mind

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• 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

  Teacher, Buddhism, Should Have

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• 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

  Buddhism, Opposites, Might

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• In the light we can see what is and what is not. We know what is right and what is inappropriate.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Light, Inappropriate

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• The first task is to discover the dharma by introspection, by constantly questioning yourself and asking yourself, "What is right?"

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Tasks, Asking

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• 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

  Buddhism, Silence, Mind

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• You can lie to yourself and fool yourself and rationalize that the choice you're making is what is right and what is true and what leads to liberation, when it's actually only the fulfillment of desire.

  Frederick Lenz

  Lying, Buddhism, Choices

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