Dharma Space

Our times and circumstances have changed much in the 13 years since I first wrote, published and posted, this to my blog ( as written and qu...

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...

Once upon a time in a kingdom far away, there lived a king of great wisdom . Each day the king would hold court and hear the pleas of his p...

What does life look like when you awaken? It looks exactly the same, but in another way, everything has changed, only it hasn’t. I suppose t...

Much truth here. “Have you found Jesus? I didn’t know he was lost.” Okay, so it’s an old joke and more than likely considered sacrilegious...

Sixty-four years ago a television game show began running here in the U.S. The show was called To Tell The Truth and involved three challeng...

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...

Meet Nagarjuna Our world is drowning in a sea of rights vs. wrongs, governments trapped in ideological deadlocks, conflicts and wars, b...

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...

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...

What traps us? The Buddha taught us that we trap ourselves because of deluded thinking. We misunderstand our true nature and thus imagine...

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...