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...

Buddhism has been around so long that it is hard to recall the locus—the seed from which it grows. But by recalling the condensed teaching o...

In school, we all learned how to conduct research and chart the results. Nobody answers questions exactly the same, so some answers chart hi...

Watching two accomplished ballroom dancers is a delight. They move in graceful, fluid motions almost as a single entity. One leads; the othe...

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...

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

Global Interconnectivity. As I write this post, 91 days remain  until the next  US presidential  election. We are now living in the pos...

Ego, by Hsiao-Yen Jones Bias; vested interests; preconceived ideas; discrimination: All forms of distortion that shape our view of the...

The road to nowhere. Imagine the relationship between a guest ( who checks in and out ) and a host who accommodates the guest. These tw...

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...

Nearly 400 years have passed since the great Scottish poet, Robert Burns, offered the words, “O would some power the gift to give us to se...

I didn’t grow up with any religious or spiritual inclinations at all. I didn’t have any desire to ponder what I considered un-useful specu...

The past is dead, the future is yet to come. I know I made a formal, online pledge to begin speaking my own words and begin to cease ...