Daily Dharma

Sit quietly for five minutes and ask yourself: what single word, right now, describes what your body most needs to feel? Let it arrive without… Read More »Be the Change

The Lady Tsogyal: From where do all that appears and exists, the phenomena of samsara and nirvana, first arise? Padmasambhava: All that appears and exists,… Read More »The Consequences of Labeling

Devotion and compassion are the greatest techniques, the most eminent means. They are a hundred times better than meditating on deities and reciting mantras. In… Read More »Cutting Through the Base and Root of Confusion

From the foregoing chapters it will be clear that the deepest sources of inspiration are not the big monasteries or the great monastic colleges and… Read More »Hermits. Saints.

Forget relationships and learn how to relate. Once you are in a relationship you start taking each other for granted — that’s what destroys all… Read More »On Relationships

Sometimes we think that to develop an open heart, to be truly loving and compassionate, means that we need to be passive, to allow others to… Read More »The Strength of Compassion

Blessed is her birth.Blessed is the teaching of the way.Blessed is the understanding among those who follow it,And blessed is their determination. Buddhafrom The DhammapadaChapter:… Read More »Blessed Be

When your attention moves into the Now, there is an alertness. It is as if you were waking up from a dream, the dream of… Read More »Awakening from a Dream

Beware of the temptation to perceive yourself unfairly treated. from A Course In Miracles

The hermit doesn’t sleep at nightIn love with the blue of thevacant moon.The cool of the breezeThat rustles the treesRustles her too. Ching An (1851… Read More »Night Sitting (a koan)