{"quotes":[{"text":"Religion [dharma] is that where there is no irreligion (adharma, immorality). Religion cannot exist where there is irreligion. There can be only one or the other. Behind every intention, there is either [the force of] religion or [the force of] irreligion.","author":"Dada Bhagwan","tags":["adharma","dharma","immoral","immorality","intention","irreligion","religion","spiritual","spiritual"],"id":3996,"author_id":"Dada+Bhagwan"},{"text":"Dharma – the foundation of all human goals be,Refers to obligations, conduct, moral duties;- 25 -.","author":"Munindra Misra","tags":["conduct","dharma","duty","goals","hindu","hinduism","hinduism-from-maya-to-moksha","life","moral","obligations"],"id":5169,"author_id":"Munindra+Misra"},{"text":"Don't always use PAIN that you receive as an excuse to GIVE PAIN...","author":"Tsem Tulku Rinpoche","tags":["compassion","dharma","don-t-hate","excuses","kindness","love","pain"],"id":7698,"author_id":"Tsem+Tulku+Rinpoche"},{"text":"The aim of far too many teachings these days is to make people 'feel good,' and even some Buddhist masters are beginning to sound like New Age apostles. Their talks are entirely devoted to validating the manifestation of ego and endorsing the 'rightness' of our feelings, neither of which have anything to do with the teachings we find in the pith instructions. So, if you are only concerned about feeling good, you are far better off having a full body massage or listening to some uplifting or life-affirming music than receiving dharma teachings, which were definitely not designed to cheer you up. On the contrary, the dharma was devised specifically to expose your failings and make you feel awful.","author":"Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse","tags":["2012","bromides","buddhism","dharma","feel-good","happiness","new-age","vajrayana"],"id":8648,"author_id":"Dzongsar+Jamyang+Khyentse"},{"text":"Despite the many occasions when its characters feel frustrated before the weight of circumstances, and despite blaming their feeling of impotence on daiva, 'fate', moral autonomy shines through in the epic. Because they have some freedom to choose they can be praised when they follow dharma or blamed when they follow adharma. At the moment of making a decision they become conscious of their freedom, and it is this perception of autonomy that gives them the ability to lead authentic moral lives.","author":"Gurcharan Das","tags":["autonomy","dharma","freedom","initiative","morality"],"id":24208,"author_id":"Gurcharan+Das"},{"text":"Now I know what success is: living your truth, sharing it.","author":"Kamal Ravikant","tags":["dharma","happiness","self-awareness","success","truth"],"id":28799,"author_id":"Kamal+Ravikant"},{"text":"सक्ताः कर्मण्यविद्वांसो यथा कुर्वन्ति भारत।कुर्याद्विद्वांस्तथासक्तश्चिकीर्षुर्लोकसंग्रहम्॥॥३- २५॥न बुद्धिभेदं जनयेदज्ञानां कर्मसङ्गिनाम्।जोषयेत्सर्वकर्माणि विद्वान्युक्तः समाचरन्॥॥३- २६॥`Ignorant toil for result; wise – selflessly,Blaze the trail for detached action clearly,For the common weal, path to eternity,For the benefit of the entire humanity.’3. 25-26.","author":"Munindra Misra","tags":["action","bhagwat","dharma","geeta","gita","hindu","hinduism","results","sanatan"],"id":32542,"author_id":"Munindra+Misra"},{"text":"Dharma is something that one discovers because one cannot create something that is already there.","author":"VD.","tags":["dharma","experience","inspirational"],"id":35163,"author_id":"VD."},{"text":"Dharma (function or properties) of the mind, dharma of the intellect, dharma of the chit, dharma of the ego – when all these dharma and the dharma of the Self (Soul) come into their own dharma (functions); that is known as Gnan (Knowledge of Self). And if we (self) insist upon any one’s dharma; it becomes ignorance (agnan).","author":"Dada Bhagwan","tags":["agnan","agyan","dharma","ego","gnan","gyan","intellect","knowledge-of-self","knowledge-of-the-self","mind","self","self-knowledge","soul","spiritual","spiritual","the-self","the-soul"],"id":45024,"author_id":"Dada+Bhagwan"},{"text":"What makes an action positive or negative? Not how it looks, not whether it is big or small, but it is the positive or negative motivation that is behind it. No matter how many teachings that you have heard, to be motivated by ordinary concerns, such as a desire for greatness, fame or whatever, is not the way of the true Dharma.","author":"Patrul Rinpoche","tags":["action","dharma","fame","greatness","intent","intention","virtue"],"id":49777,"author_id":"Patrul+Rinpoche"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":75,"pages":8,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}