Dharma Space

Transforming our culture Nothing is ever lost. Instead, all matter transforms in the readiness of time. This is true for everything, an...

Life, death, and fear. Nowadays, there is not only a spike in the incidence of COIVD  infections ( and resulting mortal death ), but there i...

I first wrote this post in November of 2012 (roughly 8 years ago), and the world has changed for the worst since then. The chapter of hist...

To people living in the Western World, Zen seems strange and irrelevant. I’ve tried for years to simplify Zen’s teachings that proclai...

The recent debacle in Washington brings into sharp focus a fundamental flaw in our way of thinking and thus how we wrestle with problem-solv...

The juxtaposition of where we stand at this point in the human journey is incredible. The extremes are astonishing!   On the one hand, we ar...

There's a hole in our bucket I taught our daughter economics, at an early age. And my teaching device was an old bucket. I punched ...

Meet Nagarjuna Our world is drowning in a sea of rights vs. wrongs, governments trapped in ideological deadlocks, conflicts and wars, b...

Everyone desires certainty, but it doesn’t come about; the ground beneath our feet is different from what it was yesterday, and consequent...

“There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group...