Dharma Upholds - Wisdom Leading to Joy, Inner-standing Spirituality
Dharma Upholds - Wisdom Leading to Joy, Inner-standing of Spirituality, Principles for Humanity
Dharma Upholds
"Dharma,” that which supports or holds, is an important and extremely useful concept, but there is no equivalent expression in Western languages that conveys its meaning or beauty. Dharma is a natural result of truth-love, goodness in action. Dharma upholds health and integrity of people and society. Awareness of what is dharmic expands with experience, individually and collectively. Laws and customs ought to reflect dharma, but often do not. People have a right to their bodies, minds, and the fruit of their labor, and depriving them of it by force or deceit is not dharmic. Dharmic trading is vital for the economic integrity of a society. Deception and failing to honor one’s pledges, including pledges to serve the public, is not dharmic. When desire and one’s dharma lead in opposite directions, one has the opportunity for spiritual growth and building character. Individuals and communities may have very different dharma.
Current revision: paper December 8th, 2021 (first version: 2021 July 27th); recording November 2021. New versions clarify or expand points in the original thesis; the points are unchanged.
The content of these presentations has been garnered through observation, contemplation, hopefully insight, and, most importantly, experience. Ideas and assertions are simply presented for consideration. The effort is not to prove or convince, but rather to present ideas for one’s own thought, research, innate common sense, and experience.
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The brilliant spectrum in the banner is the closest representation of the absolute joy of a realm of which I have memory since childhood. No one owns the spectrum. It is used here because of its joy.
In case it seems that it took a lot of work to create these multi-media presentations, it was negligible compared to acquiring the inner-standing required to write the content.
Artist acknowledgments: Adam Stanislav (callouts), GDJ (profile, cornucopia), Demiki (round callout), Pydubreucq (man in suit) @openclipart.org; Patrimonio (farmer), Sarunyu_Foto (globe), SssCcc (building) @ depositphotos.com; Nelli Valova (hummingbird) @ 123rf.com; Melitas (people) @ dreamstime.com.
Dharma Upholds, op. 23
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