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...

Seeing you seeing me. The President’s daughter Ivanka Trump says, “Perception is more important than reality.”  Obviously, a distincti...

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

Some time ago, I wrote a post called “ The High Price of Choice: Winning Battles, Losing Wars. ” In that post, I spoke about making choice...

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...

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

The dissolving ego. The last two posts ( Karma and the Wheel of Life and Death and Karma and The Wheel of Dharma ) were critical in un...

The realm of reality. Many, if not most, of the problems we encounter as humans are due to what we either don’t know or refuse to know....

Chuang Tzu's Dream of reality. The expression, “You are living in a dream world” is understood to mean you are out of touch with r...

There are some essential differences between spirituality ( particularly Zen ) and religions, one of which is Buddhism. To ensure we are b...