Best 109 quotes in «dharma quotes» category

We are animals descended from five billion years of wanting, striving, and seeking. And life just doesn’t cooperate. So we suffer. And so the solution to that problem is to upgrade our minds, in a distinctly ‘unnatural’ way, so that the mind clings less and lets go more.

Whatever human endeavor we choose, as long as we live our truth, it is success.

What does religion say? It says that if you care for others then you will meet others who will care for you and if you hit others, you will meet others who will hit you. This is what all relative religions say.

What is the nature of the Self (Soul)? To ‘see’ the dharma (function) of everything, to see ‘who is performing what function, and how that function is being performed.’ To ‘see’ it, is called the function of the Self (Soul).

Where there is no peace; there is not the slightest religion there.

When I chose to be fearless, I chose freedom for myself.

When we package the Dharma in a flashy box with no contents, we offer only the skin of Dharma. It might be better for authentic Dharma to die than to establish large groups and spew out teachers regurgitating sound bites like those that sell special transient mind-states as the Buddha mind.

When you practice what is right even though you do not like doing it, and avoid what is wrong, even though you want to do it, you slowly change. Later, you find yourself in a position where what is to be done is what you like to do and what is not to be done is what you do not like to do. That is, indeed, a successful life.

Wherever there is kashay, there is no religion of the Vitarag at all. God does not want one to renounce anything. One needs to become free from kashays. Kashay-free state is considered the religion of moksha, while renouncing is considered religion of the world.

While happiness is an end in itself, it is also the state of mind we can have right now.

What makes an action positive or negative? Not how it looks, not whether it is big or small, but it is the positive or negative motivation that is behind it. No matter how many teachings that you have heard, to be motivated by ordinary concerns, such as a desire for greatness, fame or whatever, is not the way of the true Dharma.

Where slightest of conflict exists, there is neither God nor Religion.

Whole world is not looking for religion, it is looking for its own safe side.

Where there is religion (religious following), there are no worries and where there are worries, there is no religion there.

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

You can't protect Dharma if you don't know what it is.

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

Dharma is not upheld by talking about it. Dharma is upheld by living in harmony with it.

An Awakened person is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.

As far as sitcoms go, I thought Jenna Elfman in 'Dharma and Greg' was a wonderful physical comedienne who had great timing.

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

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

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

If you let go completely you will have complete peace.

Had Tibet not fallen away from dharma China could not have invaded.

If it isn't good, let it die. If it doesn't die, make it good.

Everyone has a dharma or purpose in life.

Friends in the Dharma, be satisfied with your own heads. Do not put any false heads above your own. Then, minute after minute, watch your step closely.

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

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

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

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

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

The one who recognizes the uncertainty of phenomena is the Dharma within you.

Practicing Dharma is the supreme method for improving the quality of our human life.

See karma, make dharma

The Dharma Path is to keep walking forward. But the true Dharma has no going forward, no going backward, and no standing still.

The fundamental human values all emanate from Dharma, based on Truth. If human behaviour has no such basis, it leads to disaster.

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

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

To see nothing is to perceive the Way, and to understand nothing is to know the Dharma, because seeing is neither seeing nor not seeing, and because understanding is neither understanding nor not understanding.

When you are following dharma, you will be happy, at peace, still inside. There will be a sense of purpose to your life. Difficulties will not seem unconquerable.

When we shout at the oak tree, the oak tree is not offended. When we praise the oak tree, it doesn't raise its nose. We can learn the Dharma from the oak tree; therefore, the oak tree is part of our Dharmakaya. We can learn from everything that is around, that is in us.

[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.

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.

Where there is Dharma there is no karma. So we have to lean on Dharmic values and we have to build a Dharmic family, we have to relate to that family and we have to relate to it deeply.

Activities such as chanting, bowing, and sitting in zazen are not at all wasted, even when done merely formally, for even this superficial encounter with the Dharma will have some wholesome outcome at a later time. However, it must be said in the most unambiguous terms that this is not real Zen. To follow the Dharma involves a complete reorientation of one's life in such a way that one's activities are manifestations of, and are filled with, a deeper meaning. If it were not otherwise, and merely sitting in zazen were enough, every frog in the pond would be enlightened, as one Zen master said. Dōgen Zenji himself said that one must practice Zen with the attitude of a person trying to extinguish a fire in his hair. That is, Zen must be practiced with an attitude of single-minded urgency.

You are dharma. You are a wheel. And the wheel of dharma spins.

All phenomena are embraced within a single self-knowing awareness. Even though they arise as the totality of samsara and nirvana, the phenomena of the world of appearances and possibilities— limitless, boundless—arise from basic space. Therefore, they are subsumed within basic space from which the first arise.

After all, people desire immortality and do not wish to embrace the inescapable reality of death; they long for happiness and shy away from the contemplation of pain; they want to preserve their sense of self, not desconstruction it into fleeting and impersonal components. It is counterintuitive to accept that deathlessness is experienced each moment we are released from the deathlike grip of greed and hatred; that happiness in this world is only possible for those who realized that this world is incapable of providing happiness; that one becomes a fully individuated person only by relinquishing beliefs in an essential self.