Chapter

 1 2|         So the practice of the Dhamma isn't something that you
 2 2|       the true practice of the Dhamma go smoothly. Otherwise,
 3 2|       way your practice of the Dhamma can gain you release from
 4 3|     that we have practiced the Dhamma by contemplating ourselves
 5 3|     may have come to live in a Dhamma center, yet if we don't
 6 3|        t make contact with the Dhamma, if we don't practice, we
 7 3|       that the practice of the Dhamma isn't really important.
 8 3|        ve come to practice the Dhamma, we begin to have a sense
 9 3|    realize the benefits of the Dhamma, the importance of the practice.
10 3|        t use the Lord Buddha's Dhamma to examine yourself, your
11 3|     practice. ~To practice the Dhamma, then, is to go against
12 3|        work at all! ~The basic Dhamma principles that the Lord
13 3|       you become mature in the Dhamma. Otherwise, your defilements
14 3|      the world are poison. The Dhamma has to be the refuge and
15 3|     not to keep practicing the Dhamma, watch out: You're sure
16 3|    offer. ~The practice of the Dhamma is what allows us to shake
17 3|      they give in terms of the Dhamma, but your disenchantment
18 3|        we come to practice the Dhamma we can take stock of the
19 3|       much our practice of the Dhamma is progressing in the direction
20 3| understand the practice of the Dhamma in the Buddha's footsteps,
21 3|        why the practice of the Dhamma is of supreme worth. It'
22 3|      re making progress in the Dhamma: when you can disband your
23 3|     their lives to the Buddha, Dhamma, and Sangha. They realize
24 3|       under the phrase, "Sabbe dhamma anatta -- All things are
25 3|        of the world and of the Dhamma, to see things clearly with
26 3|        the real essence of the Dhamma, we have to look deeply,
27 3|     the uncompounded, the true Dhamma. ~So consider for yourself
28 3|      when you penetrate to the Dhamma. If there is still a self
29 4|     mind. ~The practice of the Dhamma is very delicate work, requiring
30 4|      This is the marvel of the Dhamma: an ease of body and mind
31 4|       leaving nothing but pure Dhamma with no sense of self at
32 4|     Lord Buddha taught, "Sabbe dhamma anatta -- All things are
33 4|     are not-self. There's just Dhamma. This is very important.
34 4|   there, but what is there, is Dhamma. This isn't the extinction
35 4|   Deathlessness -- the undying Dhamma, the undying property --
36 4|    then remains is the natural Dhamma free from birth, ageing,
37 4|        their minds will become Dhamma, will become free. ~There'
38 4|       If you want to study the Dhamma, you have to turn around
39 4|      as well. Then look at the Dhamma of mental qualities: They'
40 4|        free. This is where the Dhamma arises easily -- as easily
41 4|        decide within you. ~The Dhamma is something marvelous and
42 4|       have left is nothing but Dhamma: freedom, emptiness. And