Daily Dharma

Use the Tao to help your king don’t use weapons to rule the land such things soon return where armies camp brambles grow best to… Read More »The Daily Dharma – October 27, 2021

Happiness or sorrow – Whatever befalls you, Walk on Untouched, unattached. The Dhammapada

The practice of mindfulness is to be aware of what is going on. Once we are able to see deeply the suffering and the roots… Read More »The Daily Dharma – October 25, 2021

The Voice of Happiness After Bankei had passed away, a blind man who lived near the master’s temple told a friend: “Since I am blind,… Read More »The Daily Dharma – October 24, 2021

I was thinking of the worries which beset me when I was Raja [i.e., an Indian Monarch]. I thought I had security in wealth and… Read More »The Daily Dharma – October 23, 2021

It’s hard to accept [the fact that we don’t need to suffer the way we think we do]. Human beings seem to have a long-term… Read More »The Daily Dharma – October 22, 2021

Buddhism, it its most subtle and sophisticated expression, is not a tradition that seeks to provide answers to life’s questions or dispense “wisdom” to allay… Read More »The Daily Dharma – October 21, 2021

Want nothing. Where there is desire, Say nothing. The Dhammapada Chapter: The Wise Person

Identification with Things The people in the advertising industry know very well that in order to sell things that people don’t really need, they must… Read More »The Daily Dharma – October 19, 2021

The fact that some form of loving must precede true knowing helps us appreciate why the prophets used the intimate word for carnal knowledge or… Read More »The Daily Dharma – October 18, 2021