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It's up to us. In the Western world, the term “sentient being” is not your every-day word.  We think in terms of human beings or other ...

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

In the Diamond Sutra ,  the Buddha said his Dharma is no Dharma thus it is called the Dharma. The first time I read this Sutra I thought t...

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

If it is human to err and divine to forgive, what stands in the way of forgiveness? The knee-jerk answer is clearly the same answer that b...

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

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

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...

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...

That is THE question. “If you aren't willing to own a stock for ten years, don't even think about owning it for ten minutes.”—W...

Who ’s that in there? I began posting to Dharma Space 10+ years ago, recognizing the task before me was an impossible one: Trying to con...

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...