Quotes About Dharma

The tortured clinging to an earlier expression of The Gift very often precedes the emergence of some new version. We're aware of the dryness at the center, yes, but this aridity is usually not quite enough to propel us forward. We must first get just a whiff of the new. The surprising and intoxicating whiff of a new dharma is quite irresistible.

ambivalence, it turns out, is an unavoidable companion in the search for a new dharma):

6. Bede suggests a corollary to #5, and this is a suggestion that both Brian and I really liked: "Let go of the attempt to eliminate risk from these decisions and actions." The presence of a sense of risk is only an indication that you're at an important crossroads. Risk cannot be eliminated, and the attempt to eliminate it will only lead you back to paralysis. In important dharma decisions, we never get to 100 percent certitude.

I think my dharma is to create a safe space for people.

I think my dharma is to create a safe space for people. To create a safe container in which people can thrive and be themselves. To be a kind of home base for folks—especially those who have no other home base.

But Marion realized, overnight, that she had a new dharma. It was called cancer. She wrote in her journal: "When [God] is moving you toward a new consciousness, you need to recognize the winds of change at once, move with them instead of clinging to what is already gone." Wow. Not much holding on there. It was an instinctive move: Recognize the winds of change at once. Move with them.

Intensive practice provided Beethoven with the tools to symbolically and energetically transform his experience. It gave him an increasing experience of self-efficacy and self-esteem, and provided him with an experience of fun. Finally, it came to provide him with a profound sense of purpose, accomplishment, and meaning. It turns out that these qualities of dharma can rescue even a life in peril.

Every time we discerningly renounce a possession, we free up energy that can be channeled into the pursuit of dharma. Renunciation was never meant to be for its own sake, but for the sake

Like Frost's, our job is to make choices that create the right conditions for dharma to flourish. The Gift is indestructible. It is a seed. We are not required to be God. We are not required to create the seed. Only to plant it wisely and

Every time we discerningly renounce a possession, we free up energy that can be channeled into the pursuit of dharma. Renunciation was never meant to be for its own sake, but for the sake of dharma.

primary distortion in my dharma life has been the age-old misery of self-absorption.

You have a talent, something you are especially good at, something you can do better than anyone else. It's called your Dharma. At a deep level, you know what it is because it's buried in your subconscious mind. It's a piece of your soul. Putting your Dharma to work in service to others is your purpose. That's your path to bliss. You can begin to determine what it is by answering this question: What have I done that puts me so totally in the zone

The original reality of Amitabha is our own Dharma body, It shines out brightly everywhere, in the South, North, East, and West, It is like the autumn moon that lies in the high, vast sky, In the silence of the night its brilliance shines far over the ocean.

When we hear a Dharma talk or study a sutra, our only job is to remain open. Usually when we hear or read something new, we just compare it to our own ideas. If it is the same, we accept it and say that it is correct. If it is not, we say it is incorrect. In either case, we learn nothing. If we read or listen with an open mind and an open heart, the rain of the Dharma will penetrate the soil of our consciousness.

Ordinary people tend to be caught by the object of the mind, and practitioners of the Path tend to be caught by the mind itself. When both the mind and the object are removed, once both the mind and the objects of the mind are overcome, then there is the true Dharma.

Dharma talks aren't the truth. The true Dharma exists in the mind of the students as seeds and the Dharma talks are just like a little cloud that releases rain and causes the seeds in the mind of the practitioners to sprout and manifest.

If you are fortunate enough to be more successful on the path of practice than your brother or sister in the Dharma, find skillful and humble ways to help that person.

Bhikshu, you should know that the Tathagata is the Dharma King. If the Tathagata says something then those words are not false, they are always true. If the Tathagata says something exists, that is true. If the Tathagata says something does not exist, that is also true. If the Tathagata teaches the Mahayana, it is true. And if the Tathagata teaches the Hinayana, it is also true.

Take karma, make dharma.

To cease from evil, to do good, and to purify the mind yourself, this is the teaching of all the Buddhas.

I was 3 when I told my mom that I knew what my dharma was and that I wanted to be an actor.

The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.

Reliance on the Dharma Rather than Reliance on the Person Who Teaches It.

Seek dharma, child. Find out how you fit in, who you are. Remember that everything around you has a purpose. Even you, child.