Dharma Space

I love history. Knowing where we came from and how we got here is important. “Real” history—not the fairy-tale version we seem to prefer—tea...

Rearranging priorities. It’s time to add a new word to our contemporary vernacular. The addition is a simple adjustment to the word “id...

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...

The fools prison There’s a really curious matter regarding our self-understanding. For the most part, our unenlightened way of thinki...

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...

A couple of days ago, The Family Research Council’s Values Voter Summit was convened at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, DC. The Pre...

I’ve never met a person who said, “Today I will conduct myself in a negative and self-centered way.” On the contrary, the odds ar...

Our two sides. We live in a wondrous time of the merger between science and the realm beyond matter. For the most part, we attribute thi...

The common-coin understanding is that Buddhism is a Godless religion, and the reason for this view is that the Buddha didn’t focus on the...

On the outside looking in. To discriminate means what it says: to divide one thing from another. It begins with perception. We can see on...

We’re a curious species. Being human puts us at the top of the food chain. It also puts us at the top of other chains, such as the chain o...

Who am and who are you? To answer those questions, let’s go try a virtual experience. In your mind’s  eye, I want you to see yourself in a m...