Dharma Space

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

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

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...

Tit-for-Tat Quite a while back I wrote of post called, “ Surrendering from inflexible positions ” and a reader responded  wit...

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

The part of us that looks beyond immediate crisis has one answer and the part of us which takes over moment-by-moment has a different one. ...

The natural way. A recent blogger said she was tired of waking up to the litany of gloom and doom economic news but instead has been ...

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 invisible connected links. Observation—seeing clearly—should not be confused with making judgments. It is simply seeing what’s pres...

It has been 15 years since 911, and it’s time to dust off a previous post that was painful to write and perhaps painful to read. I wrote ...

The Scottish poet Robert Burns coined the phrase, “Ahh, to see ourselves as others see us...” and this way of seeing is indeed valuable...

Image via Wikipedia Yesterday this identity issue appeared to be unresolved with us trapped in a logical box. So now let’s shift gears and...