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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• Beyond happiness and unhappiness is truth. Truth is not affected by anything in the relative world. Truth is the unifying aspect of existence.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, World, Truth Is

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

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Wheels

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• Eternity gives life to all and sustains all, transforms all on the wheel of dharma - until all attain perfection.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Yoga, Perfection

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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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• My dharma teaches me to give my life for the sake of others without even attempting to kill.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Life, Giving, Sake

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Religion, Pitfalls, Littles

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• We don't want to go to heaven. We want to be reborn so that we can keep going and realize the dharma so we can benefit other beings, endlessly. It's a very different thing.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Heaven, Different, Benefits

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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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• If you've made a lot of negative seeds, and not a lot of positive seeds, even though you meet with the dharma, you're going to have problems.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Negative, Problem, Made

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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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• 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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• Too often in the west we fail to realize that even in eastern disciplines the spiritual life is not meant as an escape from the worldly life. There is karma to be fulfilled on earth, within the dharma of necessity.

  James Hillman

  Karma, Spiritual, Discipline

  Gopi Krishna, James Hillman (1967). “Kundalini: The Evolutionary Energy in Man”

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• There must be something here for me to get or to share or to do. So I have the duty that I do, the dharma that I do - which I love - with my teaching, with my family, my son, my students, my girlfriend.

  Gary Kraftsow

  Girlfriend, Teaching, Son

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• I've shared meditation with a lot of hip-hop artists, inmates, and returning war veterans with PTSD, as well. I feel like this dharma, this service is part of my job.

  Russell Simmons

  Jobs, War, Artist

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• Tibetans - at least traditionally - are so totally permeated with the dharma that they don't see any difference between dharma and everyday life, really. And therefore they enjoy it because they don't make a separation.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Differences, Everyday, Separation

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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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• One has to find a balance. I don't say that when you leave it you forget all about the dharma or practice, but there have to be times when you throw yourself into it, and then there are times when you just relax and realize that wherever you go, you cannot get out of the dharma.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Practice, Balance, Relax

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• The Tibetans are good at learning many skillful ways to show that everything we do becomes dharma practice, depending on which kind of approach we use.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Practice, Use, Way

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