Dharma Space

The distant place that lies within. The expression, “Home is where the heart is,” suggests that our home is in union with another. The pro...

Ducks doing what ducks do. The 1956 Broadway production of My Fair Lady was the story of Eliza Doolittle, an English Cockney flower girl wh...

Moving mountains. The Buddha said we all suffer because we attach ourselves to ephemeral things: here today, gone tomorrow. Attachment to in...

Flattening the curve. A dear friend, from my time as a Mad Man on Madison Avenue , sent me the image to the right. I responded by saying, “T...

Who Dat? Our sense of who and what we are determines how we relate to the world. In a prior post , I stuck a little toe into the great...

Arjuna and Krisha The Bhagavad Gita is  considered, unquestionably, one of Eastern spiritual literature ’ s most profound masterpieces. Acc...

The name changes. The essence doesn't. Suppose I said,   “The universe is mine or ours.”  Clearly, such a statement is delusional sinc...

If I were wishing to cross a river to the other side I would need some means to get there. Maybe I would choose a boat and oars and propel m...

The shadow of self or the reality casting the shadow? The tenet of “ no self ” has been a fundamental, defining loadstone of Buddhism s...

There has probably never been a human who didn’t wonder about their own identity and how they fit into the world.  This matter is what drov...