Dharma Space

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...

Ignorance based fear. A while ago I came across a greeting card, intended as encouragement, that said, “Don’t let reality get in the...

Our castle in the sky. Consider the metaphor of a house floating in space. This house represents our perception of reality and our unde...

In the commentary on The Diamond Sutra , Huineng said, “A bodhisattva doesn’t practice charity for his own happiness but to break through...

The tides of transformation. Before getting too far into my topic, first, let me speak about how we all perceive the physical world wit...

The talent of connecting relevant dots (not all dots are relevant) is a critical one. In a good many cases, what seems as disconnected an...

The two books of life. The idea of balancing sweetness with sorrow is particularly relevant in today’s world. In case you don’t know, A...

The past is dead, the future is yet to come. I know I made a formal, online pledge to begin speaking my own words and begin to cease ...

The masks we wear. When I was much younger there was no television, only radio and it was referred to as a “theatre of the mind.” Unli...

I have a habit each evening of sitting on our deck after dinner, feeling the gentle evening air and watching the phases of the moon.  Once...

All of us eventually become creatures of habit and after the passage of time are lulled asleep into a state of blindness based on an assum...

It has occurred to me that the relationship (as expressed by Nāgārjuna ) between the two truths —One being dual; this vs. that (two opposit...