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Buddhism has been around so long that it is hard to recall the locus—the seed from which it grows. But by recalling the condensed teaching o...

Everyone desires certainty, but it doesn’t come about; the ground beneath our feet is different from what it was yesterday, and consequent...

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...

Seeing through the fog of delusion. “Look straight ahead. What’s there? If you see it as it is, you will never err.” These were the wor...

Ego, by Hsiao-Yen Jones Bias; vested interests; preconceived ideas; discrimination: All forms of distortion that shape our view of the...

Philosophy is oftentimes regarded as an artificial covering, at best-reflecting approximations. One Webster definition is “...a search ...

My way or the highway? The boundary line between sleep and wakefulness is anything but clear. Ordinarily, we think we know the differe...

The distortions we imagine. There is a Japanese saying: “We have three faces: The first face, we show to the world. The second face, w...

“Lies, damned lies, and statistics.” —Mark Twain In prior times deception was the exception (or so it seemed). Now it appears to have b...

The culmination of every spiritual journey is the realization of completion and unity. Many religions claim we are incomplete and mus...

By now you see the difference between a thought about things and the reality of things. One is abstract and the other isn’t, and the “isn’t...

Our reflections. It’s dark, and you can’t see anything. Suddenly the lights are switched on. You’ve never seen the light before, so the gla...

Over the years that I’ve been poking here and there, examining a host of religious and spiritual paths, I’ve noticed that from the perspec...

On the outside looking in. To discriminate means what it says: to divide one thing from another. It begins with perception. We can see on...