As often as the term "dharma" is used linguistically, its definition is unclear.
According to Wikipedia, the word "Dharma" can include law, right and custom, as well as ethical and religious obligations and values, but also denote religion, ethics or morality in general, or concrete religious rituals, methods and actions.
But with a simple definition one cannot do justice to the term "Dharma", because through the "Dharma" we reach "enlightenment", we can therefore (according to the teachings of Buddha) determine life, death and any change with the right Dharma. The body is mortal, but do we know about the causes and consequences of our human existence, so with the "right" Dharma do we decide more wisely, or more consciously, for example with more mindfulness?
All day long we are busy, the work, the children, the car, the apartment, the hobbies, good food, the beloved TV evening, the sport, there is always enough to do. So much we would like to forget that at the end of all efforts we will die, so we always want to have something "to do", useful or not, just not thinking is the modern motto.
Then the result of any thinking can only be that life is finite and therefore terrible, the result makes us sad.
But whoever looks at human life openly and honestly, can actually only come to one conclusion, namely to the complete abandonment, to surrender, it is of no use at all to want to suppress these FACTS, but if we accept the finiteness of our fate, then we find the urgently needed salvation, the words of Buddha are true, the fears must first be conquered, only then the state of consciousness changes, the "enlightenment" comes closer.
The path of Dharma should be without judgment, without desires, without wanting, without craving, without hatred and without delusion, free from forms, according to the true Buddha nature in harmony with the universe.
Dharma is the truth propagated by the Buddha himself, virtuously and righteously following the noble eightfold path of the great teacher, through right understanding, right thought, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness and right meditation, following the teacher's path on his way.
Who am I?
Where do I come from?
Where am I going?
Can we (for ourselves, not for others) overcome the nature of change, "enter" deeper into reality, and then discover our "immortality"? For if the Dharma can determine life, death, and any change, then in the end it is all up to ourselves.
Is there a timeless reality without any form that exists unchanged, that is preserved?

Time is a great teacher. The misfortune: it kills its disciples
- Buddha - honorary name of the Indian philosopher Siddhartha Gautama - 560 to 480 before the year zero

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