Dharma Space

It's up to us. In the Western world, the term “sentient being” is not your every-day word.  We think in terms of human beings or other ...

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

“Dogma” is the thorn in our collective side. It is always heated, exuberant, and close-minded. The message of dogma is one of self-righteou...

Fate vs. Karma I’m somewhat of a hybrid anomaly. I never consciously intended to become spiritual, yet it happened anyway. Nor did I ever pl...

The winds of change. At the current time, conditional uncertainty and instability are running rampant throughout the world, and this is...

Which way to go? “When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not...

Happiness or madness? Once we’ve considered thinking, let’s take a look at not thinking. And the very first issue that needs to be explore...

The past is dead, the future is yet to come. I know I made a formal, online pledge to begin speaking my own words and begin to cease ...