Dharma Space

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 ...

Watching two accomplished ballroom dancers is a delight. They move in graceful, fluid motions almost as a single entity. One leads; the othe...

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

The fusion of two worlds Sixteenth-century Spanish mystic Saint John of the Cross wrote a poem that narrates the journey of th...

Today is Sunday, the day in the week when Christians around the world go to church, hoping to hear a sermon of inspiration and goodwill. The...

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. ...

“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 ...

Is having the same as being? It has now been sixty-three years since I sat in my high school algebra class. I remember very little of that...

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

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