Dharma Space

Today is Sunday, the day in the week when Christians around the world go to church, hoping to hear a sermon of inspiration and goodwill. The...

“In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few.” Not many books on Zen have achieved the notoriety...

Everyone desires certainty, but it doesn’t come about; the ground beneath our feet is different from what it was yesterday, and consequent...

The past is dead, the future is yet to come. I know I made a formal, online pledge to begin speaking my own words and begin to cease ...

All of us eventually become creatures of habit and after the passage of time are lulled asleep into a state of blindness based on an assum...

Image via Wikipedia In his commentary on the Sutra of Complete Enlightenment , Ch’an Master Sheng-yen said what might seem like a startlin...

Here or There? Permeate. Interpenetrate. Assimilation: all mean essentially the same thing—To infuse one thing completely into another t...

The temptation Confusions about the nature of God are always lurking in the background and complicating clarity. So I want to offer alt...