This website is the home of The Four Noble Truths on the web.

Dharma

• Dharma is the motivation to benefit others.
• What is dharma? Dharma means to not become attached.
• What is Dharma? Loving kindness and compassion. We treat ourselves as the mother and reach out to all sentient beings.
• Fire has the essence to warm. Dharma has the essence to fix/ antidote afflictive emotions.
• What is a sign Dharma is working? Reduced negative emotions.
• If dharma penetrates you, it goes with you. Otherwise it stays in books.
• Words are support for Dharma. Meaning is beyond words.

• The practice of giving is buddhadharma. If you are Christian and you give, that is Buddhadharma. In general, buddhadharma is anything that benefits.

• If we don’t study, buddha’s teaching will have been for nothing.
• Compassion is dharma.
• What is the practice of dharma? Abandon negative, adopt positive.
• Dharma is the method. With dharma, you can remove suffering.
• Dharma refuge is not the books. It refers to the realization in the mind of sangha.
• The dharma books you have, make it a solution to your problems, not another material possession.