Dharma Space

Have you ever wondered what Rip Van Winkle must have thought when he awakened after having been asleep for twenty years? Time had moved on. ...

Everyone suffers, nobody wants to, and the vast majority of The truth about suffering and change. humanity wonders “why.” The short, answer...

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...

Covered with the slim of injustice There appears to be a contradictory challenge in many spiritual pursuits. Picking and choosing often...

I first wrote this post some years ago and reposted it again during the 2016 run-up to the Presidential elections. Since then some conditi...

The high bar of excellence. The answer is, “it depends.” Unfortunately we rarely thoroughly examine colloquialisms, and pretentiousness...

The sky of mind If you’ve been reading my blog, more than likely you’ve come to realize that I’m an outlier. I don’t fit the ordinary c...

Zen? Tolerance and empathy are two admirable qualities, ignorance is a vast and endemic characteristic of the human condition. It is di...

This notion has been fairly well broadcast recently. Perhaps it is being revisited due to the rising emergence of radical right-wing popular...

The notion that anything can exist, separate, and apart from any contextual framework is, of course, absurd. “Up” makes no sense apart from ...

A prominent scientist and a girl on the edge of becoming a woman seem to have little in common. I know them both intimately and thus see the...