Dharma is a word with the power to cover all.
The word Dharma can explain life and the system of life.
It has power to explain life from every angle.
1. Eternal Truth of Dharma / explaining Dharma / Teaching Dharma
Anything that can help you to learn and understand life from all angles. Sometimes show you
Whatever can teach you eternal wisdom is called teaching Dharma – mantra, sutra, even statue can teach.
Whatever make you understand life in all complete angles.
Metaphor:
Someone points at the moon and it’s reflection on the water. You see it and smile. Why?
The metaphor represents the trick of life.
The moon represents consciousness – your essence. Which creates all the appearing form (illusion being) which appear like a reflection appears on the water. It looks real. But if you try to grab it you just get wet 🙂 In fact, both are illusion.
We create another illusion – as two people walk along the river they both see the moon ‘follow’ them.
This represents illusion of illusion – every life creates their own illusion from that illusion – and that is life.
Our consciousness creates one illusion – and then again when we connect to each other we create another illusion.
2. All the Appearing Form is Dharma
Explanation: Because when you look at the waves – you know h2O is there – when you look at the appearing form, the essence surely there. So all the appearing form and all the consciousness together is Dharma.
Function: Try to teach you Eternal changing, nothing you can hold.
3. Essence of all the Appearing Form is Dharma
Explanation: All the illusion being come from consciousness so essence covers both angles of Dharma.
Function: Essence try to teach you, you are always pure and free, so just purify yourself back to the Essence. Teach you there is something Eternal that never changes
4. All the Karma is Dharma
Karma comes from what our consciousness creates and then effect to each other. And together that’s life. If you break all these connections there is no life.
5. True Self-Being is Dharma
Because True Self Being is the Essence. This talks about the reflection of the moon comes from the moon, it is not real. The moon stays always there. Even when the planet twists around and reflection disappear, moon still there. You don’t see it but it’s always there.
So the true self being doesn’t change (it remains true.)
So your power to create all your illusion is Dharma, not whatever you create.
6. All the causation is Dharma
All the causation is you are the main cause for yourself. But for me you are not the main cause. We are direct and indirect supporting causes for each other. Space and timing and all indirect and direct causes. And all these causes together are life.
7. All Mantra is Dharma
Because mantra has the power to help you awaken, back to pure and free. So the power to help you awaken to be aware of everything is called Dharma.
Mantra can help you aware all your blindness, see through this illusion and back to your essence.
8. Buddha and Bodhisattva is Dharma
They are already awakened aware of all the other Dharma.
Because they are completely awakened consciousness, represent complete eternal wisdom awareness ability power to be aware everything. And when you are aware of everything, everything is there, so it’s Dharma.
From a class given November, 2016 by Forever Wisdom Forest.
Updates from a class on the 23rd of June, 2017 in Randwick, Sydney.
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