Dharma Space

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...

The fusion of two worlds Sixteenth-century Spanish mystic Saint John of the Cross wrote a poem that narrates the journey of th...

What traps us? The Buddha taught us that we trap ourselves because of deluded thinking. We misunderstand our true nature and thus imagine...

The realm of reality. Many, if not most, of the problems we encounter as humans are due to what we either don’t know or refuse to know....

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

According to Ben Franklin, nothing is more certain than death and taxes. I would add to that list one more: Life . And while it may seem ...

Some time ago, I wrote a post titled The destination. Far away? .  And considered the thought that the ultimate place of peace ...

Wise as a serpent. “Man speaks with forked tongue,” ordinarily means someone is deliberately saying one thing and meaning another. In t...

By any other name What if we could find the source of everything, and in the finding, realize that this source is an ever-present reality...

U nfortunately, Zen practice can take on an esoteric quality with practical manifestations remaining unseen and not useful.  Fathoming essen...