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> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Richard J. Williams" <richard@>
> > wrote:
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> > > > > While we're at it, since both of you are talking
> > > > > about "dharma" as if it were a Done Deal, and you
> > > > > understand what it is, what is it? Define "dharma"
> > > > > for us.
> > > > >
Dharma? A book review around dharma:
http://www.jyotish.ws/wisdom/review_maharishi_gita.html
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> > Dharma? Duty in life.
> > Look, the science now is quite evidently clear on the virtues of meditation
> > as it is in our spiritual experience when cultivated. Successful human
> > life is a flow of public responsibility and spirituality in the human form.
> > Hence it should become everyone's duty to come to meditation now and
> > thus dharma and duty are intertwined. It is that simple. To fall from
> > dharma obviously is sin. A failure of duty, adharma. This is manifestly
> > natural law. It is that simple,
> > -Buck, a Conservative Meditator in the Dome
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> "In this (Yoga) no effort is lost and no obstacle exists. Even a little of
> this dharma delivers from great fear."
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> > > Xenophaneros:
> > > > Dharma is what happens. Only what happens is what
> > > > actually happens in the universe. Nothing but this
> > > > happens. This is dharma. You do not have to do or
> > > > believe anything to be in your dharma. Try and stop
> > > > it...
> > > >
> > > Dharma is a causal nexus, an infinitely complex network
> > > of conditions.
> > >
> > > According to the oldest philosophy in India, all things
> > > happen for a reason; there are no chance events; and no
> > > events are spontaneously self-generated.
> > >
> > > Events happen due to causation, the natural law of
> > > action and reaction, where relative conditioned reflexes
> > > depend on prior events, i.e. this because of that, just
> > > like in billiards, where physics rules and gravity sucks.
> > >
> > > There are NO exceptions to the law of causation, which
> > > is the causal nexus. There is no personal demi-urge, or
> > > ghost in the machine, who interferes in human affairs,
> > > dividing history in half, thus upsetting the laws of
> > > nature. Time is an illusion.
> > >
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