Dharma Space

Any road to nowhere. When you cut through the extraneous and get down to the fundamental issue, knowing where we are and where we...

The realm of reality. Many, if not most, of the problems we encounter as humans are due to what we either don’t know or refuse to know....

The road to nowhere. Imagine the relationship between a guest ( who checks in and out ) and a host who accommodates the guest. These tw...

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...

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

Manic depression; Bipolar affective disorder is a certifiable mental illness that can mimic something akin to phases of awakening.  The ...

As a boy living in the Kansas heartland, I learned about farming. My grandmother reared me, and her first rule was “good soil.” Consequen...

Letting go may be seen as either a negative or a positive. On the one hand, it could be a sign of weakness; of just giving up when tenacity...

From time to time, I’ve written about “ ego death ” or “allowing the self to die.”  In Jungian psychology, ego death is synonymous with psyc...

To live is to enjoy a truly  great mysterious adventure! We have a body that moves, senses the universe, thinks and speculates, imagines r...

“From the beginning all beings are Buddha.  Like water and ice, without water, no ice, outside us no Buddhas.” Right action/cause (samyak-ka...