Dharma Space

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

Covered with the slim of injustice There appears to be a contradictory challenge in many spiritual pursuits. Picking and choosing often...

Seeing only clouds of delusion. Zen Master Huang Po (Huángbò Xīyùn) was one of the most important and revered teachers of all time. Am...

The kingdom of magic. Many years ago I had an experience, which irrevocably changed my life. When it happened I knew it was transformin...

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 sky of mind If you’ve been reading my blog, more than likely you’ve come to realize that I’m an outlier. I don’t fit the ordinary c...

“The Master arrives without leaving, sees the light without looking, achieves without doing a thing.” —Lao Tzu: TaoTe Ching The quote abov...

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

The American Spring What at first seemed like a small and isolated fringe movement in New York City is now popping up across our nation...

Many have wondered how to classify Buddhism since it is not preeminently concerned with a God concept (as normally understood by westerner...