Dharma Quotes · Page 2

“The greatest religion [dharma] is that we keep everyone pleased.”

— Dada Bhagwan

Inside the treasury of the dharma eye a single grain of dust.

— Dogen

Do not practice buddha-dharma with the thought that it is to benefit others.

— Dogen

The heart wants to go on; that is its dharma. For unless it moves, it dies.

— Rabindranath Tagore

If you are following the dharma no matter what you do it is moral.

— Robert M. Pirsig

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

— Frederick Lenz

By the dharma is meant the heart, for there is no dharma apart from the heart.

— Huangbo Xiyun

Everyone has a dharma or purpose in life.

— Deepak Chopra

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

— Nyogen Senzaki

“The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure. By this truth, all appearances are empty.”

— Bodhidharma

“The Buddhadharma is not, however, associated with the practice of being a candy-ass.”

— Susan Piver

Have your life properly aligned with dharma. The technicalities of the movement of the kundalini are easy to master. Dharma is much…

— Frederick Lenz

I just kind of understood it, and I threw my love for others and love for life into the character, and was…

— Jenna Elfman

“When you make ‘adjustments’ with everyone, that indeed is the highest of all religion (dharma).”

— Dada Bhagwan

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

— Tenzin Palmo

We have met with the dharma. Many of us have met with teachers. We do have some idea of what to do…

— Tenzin Palmo

Very often, in order to bring about stillness we have to be tirelessly active in the outer world. You might suppose this…

— Frederick Lenz

Meditate well so you can be a good instrument of eternity. You could have a mediocre meditation today, but you're not going…

— Frederick Lenz

As I study both the exoteric and the esoteric schools of Buddhism, they maintain that human beings are endowed with Dharma-nature by…

— Dogen

“O Manjusri, in the world, there are two types of persons who destroy the genuine dharma: those who have strong views about…

— Karl Brunnholzl

“To give happiness to others is dharma (religion), but your own main religion is attained only after you attain [knowledge of] the…

— Dada Bhagwan

There is no dharma greater than a word uttered by a man of conscience; there is no karma greater than a man…

— Thiruman Archunan

“Most difficult is the adharma (non-religion, to do what is unrighteous), the least difficult is dharma (religion, to do what is righteous)…

— Dada Bhagwan

“Lord Krishna says, “Whenever dharma declines and the purpose of life is forgotten, I manifest myself. I am born in age after…

— Anonymous

Followers of the Way [of Chán], if you want to get the kind of understanding that accords with the Dharma, never be…

— Linji Yixuan

Dharma has several connotations in South Asian religions, but in Buddhism it has two basic, interrelated meanings: dharma as 'teaching' as found…

— Taitetsu Unno

The individuation of dharma practice occurs whenever priority is given to the resolution of a personal existential dilemma over the need to…

— Stephen Batchelor

Lord Krishna... proclaims Self-realization, true wisdom, as the highest branch of all human knowledge-the king of all sciences, the very essence of…

— Paramahansa Yogananda

The dharma is the most precious thing in the world and we should put it at the center of our hearts and…

— Tenzin Palmo

Tolerance is a form of generosity and it is a form of wisdom. There is nothing anywhere in the Dharma [Buddhist scriptures]…

— Hsing Yun

“Activities such as chanting, bowing, and sitting in zazen are not at all wasted, even when done merely formally, for even this…

— Francis Harold Cook

“Just stick to the ordinary circumstances without labeling them ordinary. Be open to them with no desire to change them in any…

— Francis Lucille

Dharma is another name for existence. It is existence in its purest form.

— Frederick Lenz

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

“That which takes one away from religion (dharma) is bad company (kusang).”

— Dada Bhagwan

“This stuff of a past not worthily lived is also medicine.”

— Joan Halifax

“Dharma is all about helping the helpless.”

— Devdutt Pattanaik

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

— Bodhidharma

A monk is holy and great until he starts teaching you the real Dharma

— Tsem Tulku

Purity is the ability to see dharma in its manifold forms in any plane or loka.

— Frederick Lenz