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...

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...

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...

All of us eventually become creatures of habit and after the passage of time are lulled asleep into a state of blindness based on an assum...

The doctor whacking the moles of illness. “Do easy things before they become too hard. Difficult problems are best solved while they ar...

Often, I’ve found myself faced with seemingly insurmountable challenges and felt as if I needed to swallow the entire ocean in a singl...

The essential essence There is a curious correspondence between essential oil and us. We, too, contain an essence that has been extracted fr...

“The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao. The name that can be named is not the eternal name. The nameless is the beginning of heav...