Daily Dharma

Spiritual Friendship It’s not unusual to be in a community with someone who pushes all your buttons. Exactly the sort of person you’d avoid at… Read More »Spiritual Friendship

It’s the Inward Heart that Matters Those ornamented with jewels need not be the slaves of their senses. It is not the outward garb that matters;… Read More »It’s the Inward Heart that Matters

The Taoteching #22 Partial means whole crooked means straight hollow means full worn-out means new less means content more means confused thus the sage holds… Read More »The Taoteching #22

See and Go Free Come, consider the world, A painted chariot for kings, A trap for fools.   But she who sees goes free.  … Read More »See and Go Free

The Law of Cause and Effect: The Root of all Dharma Note: The following is an excerpt from an exchange between Milarepa (1028 — 1111)… Read More »The Law of Cause and Effect: The Root of all Dharma

The Misuse of One’s Talents The following is an exchange between author Robert Svoboda and his teacher, Aghori Vimalananda Aghori Vimalananda: I was an inveterate… Read More »The Misuse of One’s Talents

Loving Life as It Is “When we say “taking happiness and suffering as the path,” it does not mean we change the conditions of life.… Read More »Loving Life as It Is

The Bodhisattva Ideal in these Unprecedented Times Note: The text below is from a July 4, 2024 email sent by Joan Halifax, founder of Upaya… Read More »The Bodhisattva Ideal in these Unprecedented Times

The Prejudicial Thinking Mind Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don’t see the other human… Read More »The Prejudicial Thinking Mind

Mirage-like Appearances For consider the world —A bubble, a mirage.See the world as it isAnd death shall overlook you. Buddhafrom The DhammapadaChapter: The World