Dharma Space

It's up to us. In the Western world, the term “sentient being” is not your every-day word.  We think in terms of human beings or other ...

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...

If you can, grasp that everything we perceive and process—whether internal or external-results from elusive images projected in our brain. Y...

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

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...

Some time ago, I wrote a post called “ The High Price of Choice: Winning Battles, Losing Wars. ” In that post, I spoke about making choice...

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

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

The tides of transformation. Before getting too far into my topic, first, let me speak about how we all perceive the physical world wit...

Nearly 400 years have passed since the great Scottish poet, Robert Burns, offered the words, “O would some power the gift to give us to se...

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