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...

With no loss, there is no love. Fewer things in mortal life hurt as much as the grief that comes from losing a loved one. To pontificate abo...

As often occurs, I discover relevance between previous posts and current affairs. This is such a case, and accordingly, I’m reposting it now...

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...

If you can, grasp that everything we perceive and process—whether internal or external-results from elusive images projected in our brain. Y...

Note: I first wrote this post in September of 2011 —Nine years ago. While the specifics have changed, the essence has not. “Qu’ils mangent d...

From time to time, I’ve written about the related matters of dogma, close-mindedness, delusion, and bias. My observations ordinarily st...

There's a hole in our bucket I taught our daughter economics, at an early age. And my teaching device was an old bucket. I punched ...

Is having the same as being? It has now been sixty-three years since I sat in my high school algebra class. I remember very little of that...

Ignorance based fear. A while ago I came across a greeting card, intended as encouragement, that said, “Don’t let reality get in the...

Some say we come into this world as a blank slate, upon which is A high cost to pay.  written the moment-by-moment experiences of mortal lif...

Everyone suffers, nobody wants to, and the vast majority of The truth about suffering and change. humanity wonders “why.” The short, answer...