Dharma Space

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...

Thinkers think thoughts. Thoughts produce thinkers. Thoughts are about things. Non-things are not thoughts. Thoughts are not things. Both th...

I didn’t grow up with any religious or spiritual inclinations at all. I didn’t have any desire to ponder what I considered un-useful specu...

When examined closely, there is a very curious correspondence between how a septic system works and different states of consciousness. Mor...

Given our true nature ’ s unimaginable  character, Zen spills over with poetry and figures of speech , conveying what can’t be grasped. I...

Since Right Mindfulness and Right Concentration (steps 7 and 8) are so closely aligned, we’ll consider them together. These are steps of m...