Dharma is one and one only. Ahimsa means moksha, and moksha is the realization of Truth.
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.
As far as sitcoms go, I thought Jenna Elfman in 'Dharma and Greg' was a wonderful physical comedienne who had great timing.
The masters only point the way. But if you meditate And follow the dharma You will free yourself from desire. 'Everything arises and passes away. ' When you see this, you are above sorrow. This is the shining way.
To think that practice and realization are not one is a heretical view. In the Buddha Dharma, practice and realization are identical. Because one's present practice is practice in realization, one's initial negotiating of the Way in itself is the whole of original realization. Thus, even while directed to practice, one is told not to anticipate a realization apart from practice, because practice points directly to original realization.
If it isn't good, let it die. If it doesn't die, make it good.
There is a dharma for yourself, for someone else, for a family, for a nation, for a universe. There are collective and individual dharmas.
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.
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.
Not to follow the dharma leads to disaster. Life will be unhappy.
Everyone in advanced meditation practice should be involved with the economic support of the spread of the dharma. We live in a material world, and it's very expensive to teach meditation.
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.
To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.
Even a little of dharma saves one from many a pitfall.
My dharma teaches me to give my life for the sake of others without even attempting to kill.
The Buddha’s dharma didn’t teach peace and relaxation; it taught awakening—often rude awakening.
I was 3 when I told my mom that I knew what my dharma was and that I wanted to be an actor.
Sathya, Dharma, Shanghai and prema are the hall-marks of a purified heart, a heart where God is enshrined and is manifest.
An Awakened person is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.
The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.
