Daily Dharma

This Yearning for More Has No End In striving for wealth, our attachment to it can become so great as to eclipse time with family,… Read More »This Yearning for More Has No End

Addressing Conflicts Without Violence Peace Through Dialogue: Addressing Conflicts Without Violence – His Holiness the Dalai Lama talks about achieving peace in a complex world,… Read More »Addressing Conflicts Without Violence

My Soul is from Elsewhere, I’m Sure of That My soul is from elsewhere,I’m sure of that,and I intend to end up there.This drunkenness beganin some… Read More »My Soul is from Elsewhere, I’m Sure of That

The Use of a Greater Intelligence There is an aliveness in you that you can feel with your entire Being, not just in the head.… Read More »The Use of a Greater Intelligence

Anyone Can Be Our Teacher   Note: Shariputra was one of the Buddha’s two main disciples (sometimes known as “heart disciples”).   The Venerable Shariputra’s humility… Read More »Anyone Can Be Our Teacher

Attention The importance of single-mindedness, of bare attention, is illustrated in the following anecdote: One day a man of the people said to Zen Master… Read More »Attention

Consciousness is Not Confined to the Brain While, according to Western conceptions, the brain is the exclusive seat of consciousness, yogic experience shows that our… Read More »Consciousness is Not Confined to the Brain

The Taoteching #25 Imagine a nebulous thing here before Heaven and Earth silent and elusive it stands alone not wavering it travels everywhere unharmed it… Read More »The Taoteching #25

A Broader Application of Zazen Although sitting is the foundation of zazen [i.e., seated meditation], it is not just any kind of sitting. Not only… Read More »A Broader Application of Zazen

Don’t Scoff at Heaven If you scoff at heaven,  And violate the [Dharma], If your words are lies, Where will your mischief end? Buddha from… Read More »Don’t Scoff at Heaven