Dharma Space

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...

In school, we all learned how to conduct research and chart the results. Nobody answers questions exactly the same, so some answers chart hi...

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

Measuring what can't be measured. Since the beginning of time, we have wrestled with the same issues. Like an adopted child, we lon...

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...

If you check the colloquial definition of you can’t prove a negative , you will find the following distinction: Two sides. One Coin. eviden...

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

“Dogma” is the thorn in our collective side. It is always heated, exuberant, and close-minded. The message of dogma is one of self-righteou...

From time to time, it ’ s worth recycling some posts. This one, in particular, is such a post since it addresses the underpinnings of how l...

The depths of consciousness The Buddhist concept of 9 levels of consciousness provides a great template for a life of  transformative chang...

Someone close to me asked this question, and to give a proper answer, I found it necessary to first define some terms.  Suffering is a men...