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...

Two sides: Winning and losing. Many years ago, my Zen teacher told me: “Once you open your eyes, without bias, you’ll be amazed how many les...

If you can, grasp that everything we perceive and process—whether internal or external-results from elusive images projected in our brain. Y...

The fusion of two worlds Sixteenth-century Spanish mystic Saint John of the Cross wrote a poem that narrates the journey of th...

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...

Symbol of enlightened purity. Unfortunately, most in the West have not been introduced to the depth and breadth of Eastern wisdom. It is mo...

My daughter and I loved reading stories together. She liked it since she was fascinated by the stories. I liked it because I loved being wi...

The secret of happiness. Rich man, Poor man, Beggarman, Thief, Doctor, Lawyer, Indian Chief—The limerick, reflecting a child’s wonderin...

Is having the same as being? It has now been sixty-three years since I sat in my high school algebra class. I remember very little of that...

The driving force that has compelled all cultures, at all times, is the desire for freedom. How are we to understand this desire that def...

Many years ago, my teacher said that the process of awakening was like a hand that begins with a fist of fear and over time, through persi...