What is Dharma?

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Meditation and the Spiritual path - idea # 138
from your Buddhism expert



Bliss and Openness pt. 20
What is Dharma?



Happy Interconnection-Wednesday!

When we read Patrul Rinpoche’s, words:

“…one Dhar-ma, Bo-dhi-chit-ta, embodies all practices of the development and completion stages...”

the first question that comes up is, “what is ‘Dhar-ma’?” For most of us, the first time we heard the word “Dhar-ma” was in that T.V. show a few years ago called “Dharma and Greg.” Could you remember that? I liked it, it was funny.

Like most Sanskrit terms “Dhar-ma” has many meanings. It can mean
“phenomena” as in the phrase “the Enlightened one’s Teachings on the ultimate nature of all phenomena.” Wow, such a mouthful! No wonder it was simply shorted to “Buddha-Dharma” and then to simply “Dharma.”

You’ll notice it does not refer to the conventional truth of all things. Dharma is not like some encyclopedia-galactica! My friend it won’t tell us how to
make a longer lasting light-bulb. Well then, what it is good for?

Buddha’s teachings are perfect if what we want, if what we really desire is FREEDOM from the tyranny of foolishness, selfishness, confusion, pain, sorrow, fear, anger and turmoil in our lives.

That is the function of Buddha’s teachings. Not to become a psudo-spiritual Know-it-all, not to become the master of eastern trivia, NOT to swap the culture we were born into for the culture of: Thailand, India, Tibet, Nepal, China, Korea or Japan.

So what is this “Bodhichitta” term?
We’ll explore that Tomorrow.



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• verbal,
• Semi-verbal and
• silent meditations
that could be perfect for whatever life throws at you?

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