Dharma Space

Note: I first wrote this post in September of 2011 —Nine years ago. While the specifics have changed, the essence has not. “Qu’ils mangent d...

Some years ago, my teacher painted calligraphy for me that said, “A single drop of rain waters 10,000 pines.” While not literally true...

Here’s your basic Graduate Record Exam question: What event links the following people? The people are (not in any particular order): Max...

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...

“In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few.” Not many books on Zen have achieved the notoriety...

There's a hole in our bucket I taught our daughter economics, at an early age. And my teaching device was an old bucket. I punched ...

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

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...

“There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group...

Global Interconnectivity. As I write this post, 91 days remain  until the next  US presidential  election. We are now living in the pos...

If it isn’t patently clear by now, “my way” is the highway to somebody else, who considers “our way” the flip side of “their way.” Wouldn’...

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...