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Feedback/Opinion on Dharma:-

Xiaotian Zhu maybe there are different meaning between Dharma (佛理) and Dharma (佛法) and dharma (phenomenon)???

In case of Dharma (佛理), i will go old and die too whether in earth or in other planet

Francesca Poon Hahaha! Your shell will aged n die but not your Buddha nature

Guru said : Dharma is in all we do!

Don't create too many category to break down Dharma or for that matter anything. In the end you confuse yourself too and attaches property or reality to something that is intangible or even don't exist. Cheers, lotuschef

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dharma_(Buddhism)

Dhamma (Pali) or Dharma (Sanskrit: धर्म) in Buddhism can have the following meanings:

The state of Nature as it is (yathā bhūta)

The Laws of Nature considered collectively.

The teaching of the Buddha as an exposition of the Natural Law applied to the problem of human suffering.

A phenomenon and/or its properties.

Etymologically, the word Dhamma (Sanskrit: Dharma) is derived from the root "dham," meaning "to uphold" or "to support," and the commentary further explains that it is that which upholds or supports the practitioner (of Dhamma) and prevents him or her from falling into states of misery or birth in a woeful existence.

Of all Buddhist terminology, the word Dhamma commands the widest, most comprehensive meaning.

Dharma is to cultivate the knowledge and practice of laws and principles that hold together the fabric of reality, natural phenomena and personality of human beings in dynamic interdependence and harmony.

 

Gautama Buddha referred to the path that he prescribed his students as dhamma-vinaya (dhamma is the conventional rendering of the Paliword into Roman script compared to Sanskrit which is rendered as dharma) which means this path of discipline (vinaya means discipline).

The path of the Buddhas (Gautama Buddha saw himself as one in a long line of Buddhas stretching back into remote antiquity) is a path of self-imposed discipline.

This discipline involves refraining as much as possible from sexual activity (this is called Brahmacarya), a code of ethical behaviour (Śīla) and effort in the cultivation of mindfulness and wisdom. (See also Threefold Training)

 

In the Buddhist Scriptures, the expression "The Dharma" often refers to the Buddha's teachings and their scriptural recension (e.g. theVinaya and Sutta Pitaka of the Pali Canon), and can more broadly include the later traditions of interpretation and exegesis that the various schools of Buddhism have developed to help explain and expand upon the Buddha's teachings.

In later Mahayana tradition, this was seen as the 84,000 different teachings (the Kangyur/bka.'gyur) that the Buddha gave to various types of people based on their needs.

In this sense of being synonymous with the Buddha's teachings the Dharma constitutes one of the Three Jewels of Buddhism in which practitioners of Buddhism take refuge (what one relies on for his/her lasting happiness). The three jewels of Buddhism are the Buddha (mind's perfection of enlightenment), the Dharma (teachings and methods), and the Sangha (the community of committed practitioners of the buddha dharma who provide mutual support, encouragement and spiritual friendship).

 

The cultivation and attainment of wisdom is part of the goal and practice of Buddhism.

In order to attain wisdom one must understand the nature of things (the dharma) and part of the practice of Buddhism is the investigation of Nature - dhamma-vicaya.

This means to adopt an objective, scientific approach to understanding the causal relationships between various phenomena.

In particular it refers to the dispassionate self-observation discussed in teachings such as the Satipatthana Sutta. The Buddha himself has been called a great or even a super-scientist because his teachings on the way out of suffering use analyses of the causal relationships between the different factors which constitute mind and body. The crowning achievement of this analysis is the doctrine of dependent origination.

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