Dharma Inquiry - Daniel Schmachtenberger

Second, negativity is looking for resolution and release. All forms of suffering seek to be free from the grip of sorrow. Sometimes the ways suffering seeks release only create more sorrow, as when one succumbs to blame, shame, victimhood, control, guilt, etc. But when suffering seeks its release through compassion, love, and wisdom, the doors to r

In addition to universal dharmas, each individual has his or her own personal dharma, or svadharma, the law of our own particular nature that shows us our special role and purpose in life. Yoga requires that we find the appropriate dharmic spiritual path and understand our place in the universal unfoldment of consciousness. Ayurveda states that hea

Dharma is the actual protection through which we are permanently released from the sufferings of sickness, ageing, death and rebirth; and Sangha are the supreme spiritual friends who guide us to correct spiritual paths. Through these three precious wishfulfilling jewels, Buddha, Dharma and Sangha – known as the ‘Three Jewels’ – we can fulfil our ow

Classical Hinduism and the parallel traditions of Buddhism and Jainism developed the moral concept of dharma as an abstract, authoritative and autonomous idea (in the Axial Age mode), but it served to preserve the organic unity of ‘beinghood’.