dharma

Today I spent a great deal of time contemplating the concept of dharma

Noun

धर्म (dharma) m

1. religion

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Etymology From Sanskrit धर्म (dhárma)

Noun

धर्म (dharma)

1. religion

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Sanskrit

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *dʰer- (“to hold, to support”).

Noun

धर्म (dhárma) m

1. morality, virtue, moral code, good deed, good works
2. that which is established or firm, steadfast decree, statute, ordinance, law
3. usage, practice, customary observance or prescribed conduct, duty
4. right, justice (often as a synonym of punishment)
5. religion, religious merit
6. Law or Justice personified
7. the law or doctrine of Buddhism
8. the ethical precepts of Buddhism
9. the law of Northern Buddhism
10. nature, character, peculiar condition or essential quality, property, mark, peculiarity
11. a particular ceremony
12. sacrifice
13. the ninth mansion
14. Upanishad
15. associating with the virtuous
16. religious abstraction, devotion
17. bow
18. Soma-drinker
19. name of the 15th अर्हत् (arhat) of the present अवसर्पिणी (ava-sarpiṇī)

It also has to do with spiritual purification. It is a way of being in the world that helps one to become spiritually pure. "Truth is one, ways are many."