Dharma Space

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

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 driving force that has compelled all cultures, at all times, is the desire for freedom. How are we to understand this desire that def...

Flattening the curve. A dear friend, from my time as a Mad Man on Madison Avenue , sent me the image to the right. I responded by saying, “T...

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

That is THE question. “If you aren't willing to own a stock for ten years, don't even think about owning it for ten minutes.”—W...

Choosing the middle doorway. “The Middle Way” is a hallmark of Buddhist thought yet the term is often short-changed or converted into a so...

The depths of consciousness The Buddhist concept of 9 levels of consciousness provides a great template for a life of  transformative chang...

The Spirit arises This is going to be a risky post since adherents to different faiths get disturbed by connecting dots of similarity. ...

Someone close to me asked this question, and to give a proper answer, I found it necessary to first define some terms.  Suffering is a men...

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