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Previously, I published a book, The Non-Identity Crisis—The crisis that endangers our worl d. The topic of the book concerns a common mis...

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves , and not twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise, we love onl...

Seeing you seeing me. The President’s daughter Ivanka Trump says, “Perception is more important than reality.”  Obviously, a distincti...

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...

If it isn’t patently clear by now, “my way” is the highway to somebody else, who considers “our way” the flip side of “their way.” Wouldn’...

Who ’s that in there? I began posting to Dharma Space 10+ years ago, recognizing the task before me was an impossible one: Trying to con...

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

In Buddhist thought, a poisonous monster lives inside each of us and it has three characteristics— greed, anger, and delusion   (or ignor...

The dissolving ego. The last two posts ( Karma and the Wheel of Life and Death and Karma and The Wheel of Dharma ) were critical in un...

There are some essential differences between spirituality ( particularly Zen ) and religions, one of which is Buddhism. To ensure we are b...

What dies, and what doesn't. I’d like to tell you a story I call “Cleansing bubbles” about my own transformation. One of life’s mo...