True zazen is surrendering every moment. But surrendering to what? It really does not matter what we call it: God or the… — Dennis Merzel Copy Share Image
All that's visible springs from causes intimate to you. While walking, sitting, lying down, the body itself is complete truth. If someone… — Dogen Copy Share Image
Beyond learning and unlearning is awareness, and beyond awareness is consciousness, and beyond consciousness is immortality, and beyond immortality is dharma and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
To preserve the integrity of the tradition, we have to distinguish between what is central to that integrity and what is peripheral.… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
“Naturally occurring timeless awareness—utterly lucid awakened mind— is something marvelous and superb, primordially and spontaneously present. It is the treasury from which… — Longchen Rabjam Copy Share Image
Buddhas continue to live on through their teachings as dharma bodies. Their spirits become manifest in the sangha (spiritual community) where their… — Shinjo Ito Copy Share Image
Of course the Dharma-body of the Buddha was the hedge at the bottom of the garden. At the same time, and no… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“There is a need somewhere in this world that only your dharma, fully expressed, can fulfill. The reason there is such overwhelming… — Darren Main Copy Share Image
Pride is a mental factor causing us to feel higher or superior to others. Even our study of dharma can be the… — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Copy Share Image
When our mind works freely without any hindrance, and is at liberty to 'come' or to 'go', we attain Samadhi of Prajna,… — Huineng Copy Share Image
Perhaps Westerners are in a better position to practice true renunciation than uneducated Orientals because most Western people, by the time they… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
So long as man is capable of Prema, Dharma will exist, do not doubt it. When that Prema is fixed on the… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
Hinduism... gave itself no name, because it set itself no sectarian limits; it claimed no universal adhesion, asserted no sole infallible dogma,… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
Vedanta teaches that consciousness is singular, all happenings are played out in one universal consciousness and there is no multiplicity of selves… — Erwin Schrodinger Copy Share Image
“This is what the path of Dharma is like. It's not that you have to do all the practices. It is sufficient… — Dhomang Yangthang Copy Share Image
Regard the heart as a vast field. Use the mind as a plough. Treat the gunas (qualities) as bullocks. Use the intelligence… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
“The original reality of Amitabha is our own Dharma body, It shines out brightly everywhere, in the South, North, East, and West,… — Thích Nhất Hạnh Copy Share Image
When we shout at the oak tree, the oak tree is not offended. When we praise the oak tree, it doesn't raise… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
“Dharma, the word at the heart of the epic, is in fact untranslatable. Duty, goodness, justice, law and custom all have something… — Gurcharan Das Copy Share Image
“It is possible to refine awareness itself so much that the emptiness of things, and the role mental construction plays, becomes a… — Jay Michaelson Copy Share Image
No true Dharma Master behaves with rage, hate, ranting, self- importance. These are signs of mental instability, a character flaw. Never follow… — Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo Copy Share Image
If you lose interest in the dharma, then you might be reborn in a place where you are unlikely to meet with… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
There must be something here for me to get or to share or to do. So I have the duty that I… — Gary Kraftsow Copy Share Image
The higher nature in man always seeks for something which transcends itself and yet is its deepest truth; which claims all its… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
Naturally, to follow dharma, we have to find out what it is. You have to struggle with it. The answer will not… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing. We think that the point is to pass… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
“This law, known as dharma or dhamma, is seen by Buddhists as a universal law of nature. That ‘suffering arises from craving’… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“A person acquainted with the true principles of this science, who preserves his Dharma (virtue or religious merit), his Artha (worldly wealth)… — M. Vatsyayana Copy Share Image
“सक्ताः कर्मण्यविद्वांसो यथा कुर्वन्ति भारत। कुर्याद्विद्वांस्तथासक्तश्चिकीर्षुर्लोकसंग्रहम्॥ ॥३- २५॥ न बुद्धिभेदं जनयेदज्ञानां कर्मसङ्गिनाम्। जोषयेत्सर्वकर्माणि विद्वान्युक्तः समाचरन्॥ ॥३- २६॥ 'Ignorant toil for result; wise… — Munindra Misra Copy Share Image
“देवर्षिगणसंघातस्तूयमानात्मवैभवा भण्डासुरवधोद्युक्तशक्तिसेनासमन्विता ॥२४ Devarshi-gana-sanghaatha-sthooya-maana-aathma-vaibhavaa Bhanda-asura-vadha-udyukta-shakti-saena-sam-anwithaa 24. She revered by knowledgeable with divinity, She source of all, through Her everything be, She has… — Munindra Misra Copy Share Image
Shivaji was the greatest Hindu king that India had produced within the last thousand years; one who was the very incarnation of… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The zazen I speak of is not learning meditation. It is simply the Dharma gate of repose and bliss, the practice-realization of… — Dogen Copy Share Image
The same Divine Compassion that blessed Dharma; saved Gajendra; restored Kuchela; and stood by Prahlada, has come to the Earth as the… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
Therefore, be islands unto yourselves. Be your own refuge. Have recourse to none else for refuge. Hold fast to the Dharma as… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still something to… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
