Daily Dharma

The Taoteching #28 Recognize the male but hold onto the female and be the world’s maid being the world’s maid don’t lose your ancient virtue… Read More »The Taoteching #28

Softening the Heart Don’t go letting life harden your heart… We can let the circumstances of our lives harden us so that we become increasingly… Read More »Softening the Heart

Like a Mother’s Love for Her Only Child After some time a new change took place, and a female figure formed itself before my eyes. She had… Read More »Like a Mother’s Love for Her Only Child

Awakening to Our True Selves “‘The essence of humanity is for us to awaken to our true selves and to our connectedness,’ he says. ‘I… Read More »Awakening to Our True Selves

The Power of Trends and Social Pressure Society is like a complex, many-dimensioned being with a life of its own. It is born naturally through… Read More »The Power of Trends and Social Pressure

The World Inside Our Heads If you put these two fundamental Buddhist ideas together—the idea of not-self and the idea of emptiness—you have a radical… Read More »The World Inside Our Heads

Freer ==> Higher ==> Seeing ==> Knowing ==> Freer The freer I get, the higher I go. The higher I go, the more I see.… Read More »Freer ==> Higher ==> Seeing ==> Knowing ==> Freer

Nature Is Gently Saying: You Are Free to Fall Apart Living in solitude in nature is much-needed medicine. Most parts of the world have become… Read More »Nature Is Gently Saying: You Are Free to Fall Apart

Pausing to Value the Abundance We Have Every community has stories of inspiring individuals who grew up with deprivation and starvation, without comforts, but who… Read More »Pausing to Value the Abundance We Have

What Brings You Alive? I want to hear about all the people you love. Who do you encounter at your work? You tell me who… Read More »What Brings You Alive?