Dharma Space

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

  Inside, outside; neither can exist apart from the other. The outside is what most people are concerned with, giving little concern, if any...

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

Flattening the curve. A dear friend, from my time as a Mad Man on Madison Avenue , sent me the image to the right. I responded by saying, “T...

“The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.”⎯Alan Watts As Voltaire indicated, while...

Good and Evil. To say what’s real, by necessity must consider the opposite—What’s not real. Nothing can be understood in isolation. It is on...

According to Ben Franklin, nothing is more certain than death and taxes. I would add to that list one more: Life . And while it may seem ...

The part of us that looks beyond immediate crisis has one answer and the part of us which takes over moment-by-moment has a different one. ...

By now you see the difference between a thought about things and the reality of things. One is abstract and the other isn’t, and the “isn’t...

To those familiar with the story of The Wizard of Oz—a wizard nobody had ever seen, controlled the Land of Oz. In a way, this wizard inhab...

Everywhere and Nowhere The Internet is an amazing technology linking the minds of anyone on earth who has the means to tap into this vi...

One of the most profound stories concerning Bodhidharma , the figure who is credited as the originator of Zen, occurred in China during t...

The Scottish poet Robert Burns coined the phrase, “Ahh, to see ourselves as others see us...” and this way of seeing is indeed valuable...

Image via Wikipedia Yesterday this identity issue appeared to be unresolved with us trapped in a logical box. So now let’s shift gears and...