180 Quotes About Dharma

Daily sitting is our bread and butter, the basic stuff of dharma. Without it we tend to be confused.

The apple tree never asks the beech how he shall grow, nor the lion, the horse, how he shall take his prey.

Naturally occurring timeless awareness—utterly lucid awakened mind—is something marvelous and superb, primordially and spontaneously present.It is the treasury from which comes the universe of appearances and possibilities, whether of samsara or nirvana.Homage to the unwavering state, free of elaborations.

Although I too am within Amida's grasp,Passions obstruct my eyes and I cannot see him;Nevertheless, great compassion is untiring and illumines me always.

All phenomena are embraced within a single self-knowing awareness.Even though they arise as the totality of samsara and nirvana,the phenomena of the world of appearances and possibilities—limitless, boundless—arise from basic space.Therefore, they are subsumed within basic space from which the first arise.

To live another's dharma, to try to be a Buddha or to be a Christ because Christ did it, doesn't get us there; it just makes us mimickers

Do not perform an action for the reward it may bring. Perform it because it is right; it is dharma.

Each man has to follow truth as he sees it.

When you practice what is right even though you do not like doing it, and avoid what is wrong, even though you want to do it, you slowly change. Later, you find yourself in a position where what is to be done is what you like to do and what is not to be done is what you do not like to do. That is, indeed, a successful life.