Dharma Space

The distant place that lies within. The expression, “Home is where the heart is,” suggests that our home is in union with another. The pro...

What does life look like when you awaken? It looks exactly the same, but in another way, everything has changed, only it hasn’t. I suppose t...

In the Diamond Sutra ,  the Buddha said his Dharma is no Dharma thus it is called the Dharma. The first time I read this Sutra I thought t...

Spiritual homeostasis Homeostasis defined: “Homeostasis is a characteristic of a system that regulates its internal environment and te...

Singularity and the void. Back in the period before pandemic social-distancing, the story of Stephen Hawking was playing in movie thea...

When all of the pieces fit together In a previous post:  Our overturned world ,  I shared Patañjali’s view of the five kleshas as be...

In the commentary on The Diamond Sutra , Huineng said, “A bodhisattva doesn’t practice charity for his own happiness but to break through...

Seeing only clouds of delusion. Zen Master Huang Po (Huángbò Xīyùn) was one of the most important and revered teachers of all time. Am...

We are facing an unprecedented era of crisis, never seen before. Not only is there the evident crisis of fighting a global war with an u...

Two of the most prominent figures in the history of Zen were Nagarjuna and Bodhidharma . Both had meaningful perspectives on the matter o...

“Lies, damned lies, and statistics.” —Mark Twain In prior times deception was the exception (or so it seemed). Now it appears to have b...

Now that the Buddhist conception of the mind has been thoroughly delineated we turn our attention to something we do continuously and deter...