Dharma Space

To a person of Zen, words are a mixed blessing. They can lead you astray or open your mind to the music of the muses. One of the greates...

Law and Order? In 1970 Alvin Toffler wrote and published Future Shock , a book many considered to have caused a paradigm shift in how ...

Image via Wikipedia When we are lost—such as now during the global COVID-19 pandemic—it’s reasonable to think about finding our way. In s...

Our mind is an amazing reality that emanates through a brain composed of different cells and neurons which function differently, yet resul...

Image via Wikipedia “ Thinking outside the box ”—A familiar expression that suggests creativity beyond normal limitations. Everyone has h...

Before After Years ago when I first began to practice yoga, I heard a story of a revered yogi who arose one morning, before dawn, a...

“Empty yourself of everything. Let the mind rest at peace. The ten thousand things rise and fall while the Self watches their return.”— Th...

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

Please describe the taste of an orange, the smell of rotting flesh, the feel of a feather brushing your skin, what fear looks like, the exp...

Over the years that I’ve been poking here and there, examining a host of religious and spiritual paths, I’ve noticed that from the perspec...