Dharma Space

Leaving school behind. Wise choices—Something we all want to make. The trouble is choices are measured after the fact, not before, and ...

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

One plus one equals two. Two divided by itself equals one. We learn these fundamental lessons about manipulating numbers early in life. It’s...

To people living in the Western World, Zen seems strange and irrelevant. I’ve tried for years to simplify Zen’s teachings that proclai...

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

Watching two accomplished ballroom dancers is a delight. They move in graceful, fluid motions almost as a single entity. One leads; the othe...

Note: I first wrote this post in September of 2011 —Nine years ago. While the specifics have changed, the essence has not. “Qu’ils mangent d...

The recent debacle in Washington brings into sharp focus a fundamental flaw in our way of thinking and thus how we wrestle with problem-solv...

To a person of Zen, words are a mixed blessing. They can lead you astray or open your mind to the music of the muses. One of the greates...

Once upon a time in a kingdom far away, there lived a king of great wisdom . Each day the king would hold court and hear the pleas of his p...

It’s an education to watch young children learning the social skill of sharing (or not). It’s an unnatural skill. The ordinary way is to no...

The juxtaposition of where we stand at this point in the human journey is incredible. The extremes are astonishing!   On the one hand, we ar...

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...

From time to time, I’ve written about the related matters of dogma, close-mindedness, delusion, and bias. My observations ordinarily st...

The Republican Party has changed much since “Honest Abe.” Recently there has been a resurgence of awareness about our 16th President...