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...

To people living in the Western World, Zen seems strange and irrelevant. I’ve tried for years to simplify Zen’s teachings that proclai...

If it is human to err and divine to forgive, what stands in the way of forgiveness? The knee-jerk answer is clearly the same answer that b...

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...

Thinkers think thoughts. Thoughts produce thinkers. Thoughts are about things. Non-things are not thoughts. Thoughts are not things. Both th...

Our castle in the sky. Consider the metaphor of a house floating in space. This house represents our perception of reality and our unde...

From time to time, it ’ s worth recycling some posts. This one, in particular, is such a post since it addresses the underpinnings of how l...

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

Singularity and the void. Back in the period before pandemic social-distancing, the story of Stephen Hawking was playing in movie thea...

Have you ever found yourself so engrossed in a movie that your emotions reacted to pure fantasy? On one level you know what you are seeing...

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