Daily Dharma

You Don’t Need to Convert Others If people are determined to convert others into their mold, then they are attempting to reassure themselves by using… Read More »You Don’t Need to Convert Others

Searching for Conclusive Knowledge from a Place of Limited Capacity The living entity has a deep-rooted desire to gain comprehensive knowledge of the world she… Read More »Searching for Conclusive Knowledge from a Place of Limited Capacity

A Consequence of Knowing that We Know Now, if the gulls and the fish [and other animals] do not philosophize, they have no consciousness of… Read More »A Consequence of Knowing that We Know

Realism in a Monastic Community Note: This excerpt, from the chapter titled “Stages of Monastic Life,” has to do with the various stages of insight… Read More »Realism in a Monastic Community

Killing Gasan instructed his students one day: “Those who speak against killing and who desire to spare the lives of all conscious beings are right.… Read More »Killing

Why Do Like-minded People Fight with Each Other? The brahmin Aramandanda approached the Venerable Mahakaccana, exchanged in friendly greetings with him, and asked him: “Why… Read More »Why Do Like-minded People Fight with Each Other?

The Arch Enemy of the Yogi The Yoga of Despair There are some things in life we can never sufficiently prepare for. And in the… Read More »The Arch Enemy of the Yogi

The Mechanism of Projection Of these mechanisms used by the mind to keep the feeling repressed, denial and projection are perhaps the best-known methods, as… Read More »The Mechanism of Projection

Letting Go Letting go involves being aware of a feeling, letting it come up, staying with it, and letting it run its course without wanting… Read More »Letting Go

Sacredness “Sacred” means set apart. Special. Exclusive. Different. There’s a built-in difficulty here: for it seems as if the sacred, to be the sacred, must… Read More »Sacredness