Dharma is a sanskrit word that means a few different things depending on how you use it. Sanskrit is funny that way.Ostermilk wrote: ↑13 Jan 2018There's this thing in eastern religions called Dharma that is something to do with finding and living your divine purpose, best of luck with finding that, but from your description, you seem to have a good balance between 'work' and creativity, and never worry about a partner that doesn't understand you, I've found it's far more difficult having a partner that does.
Anyhow it's a great discussion you kicked off here.
It can mean either 'thing' like dharmas (actually dharmin in sanskrit) or it is used to reffer to buddhism in a general sort of way. Buddhadharma or just Dharma in which case it's kind of like our word path but it's still more like saying the buddha's 'thing'. There's also dharmata which is a bit like the true nature of a thing (literally thing-ness) and then my personal fav, Dharmadhatu. Which is something like the infinite interpenetrating reality of everything that's beyond the abuility of conceptual minds to percieve in the usual style because it would literally be like the universe seeing itself, hence the interpenetrating bit. Something like that. Tricky word. It literally means the space of all things or just thing-space.
I mention this as a technical point because if you went and found the Dharma it wouldn't be like a personal thing in terms of finding your way in the world or whatever. It would be like becoming a buddhist.