Dharma
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also Buddha-Dharma · the myriad dharmas
Summary
Dharma is a Sanskrit word with many meanings: things or objects (dharmas), conduct, law and, in the ultimate sense, a universal law that governs the universe. In these texts it also means reality itself, the way things are here; following Nagarjuna, this world exists now as action, and action is Dharma.
Part of ↑ reality and the universe ↑ Buddhist philosophy
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it means the way things are here, is definitely the way things are here
Introductions 1: Rules and Reality Summer 2003 — Introductions to Shobogenzo Chapters
Texts
- What did the Buddha discover? ●●●dharmas as fundamental particles · reality as universal Dharma
It is not seeing dharmas; it is a universal Dharma. It is an all-embracing reality
- Kaikyoge – Verse to Open the Sutras ●●●Dharma hard to meet · receiving and keeping the Dharma
is rarely met with, even in hundreds of thousands of millions of kalpas
- Doshin ●●● ShobogenzoDharma before body and life
For the sake of the Dharma we should begrudge neither body nor life
- Nagarjuna’s Mulamadhyamakakarika ●●● January 1996 — Gudo Wafu Nishijimaaction as Dharma
this world exists at the present moment as action, and action is just Dharma
- The Buddha’s Discovery ●●● June 2005 — Lotus Centredharmas as fundamental particles · four meanings of Dharma
Dharma has more than four meanings, but the four main meanings are thing, object
- Kodo Sawaki and Concrete Teaching ●●● August 2011 — Dibbavanathe world before thinking
The Buddha Dharma is everything before we make up stories. In other words, the world before thinking.
- Introductions 1: Rules and Reality ●●● Summer 2003 — Introductions to Shobogenzo ChaptersDharma as how things are
it means the way things are here, is definitely the way things are here
- MMK 2: Non-Separation ●●● Summer 2008 — Nagarjuna’s Mulamadhyamakakarikaillusion of arising and ceasing
In conclusion, the process of dharmas arising, continuing in existence and ceasing are an illusion
- Maka-hannya-haramitsu ●●● Shobogenzoreal dharmas as bare manifestations
These real dharmas are bare manifestations: they are neither appearing nor disappearing, neither dirty nor pure
- Genjo-koan 3: Action Only Here and Now ●●● Summer 2002 — Genjo-koanturning of the Dharma-wheel
the turning of the Dharma-wheel suggests that the truth is moving, or the world is moving
Keywords
Ideas (11) dharmas as fundamental particles2 action as Dharma Dharma as how things are Dharma before body and life Dharma hard to meet four meanings of Dharma illusion of arising and ceasing real dharmas as bare manifestations reality as universal Dharma receiving and keeping the Dharma the world before thinking
Images and stories (1) turning of the Dharma-wheel