Daily Dharma

Presence “Your presence is like a mantra, sacred speech that has a transforming effect. When your body, speech and mind are in perfect oneness, that… Read More »Presence

The Complete Silencing “All conditioned things are impermanent.They are phenomena, subject to birth and death.When birth and death no longer are,the complete silencing is joy.”… Read More »The Complete Silencing

“Movement Matters” “Total human movement is undergoing an exponential decline. If we represent the whole of human history with a single twenty- four- hour day,… Read More »“Movement Matters”

Being Completely Present A friend of mine once travelled to Sikkim, hoping to see His Holiness the Sixteenth Karmapa, a great Tibetan lama. The trip… Read More »Being Completely Present

SMILE “There are more than three hundred muscles in the face, and when we know how to breath in and smile, these muscles can relax.… Read More »SMILE

Watching Your Thoughts If you can watch [your] thoughts . . . then it’s like watching television. You are not in the television, you are… Read More »Watching Your Thoughts

The Taoteching #10 Can you hold fast your crescent soul and not let it wandercan you make your breath as soft as a baby’scan you… Read More »The Taoteching #10

We Only Need to Be Aware “If we are standing, we only have to know we are standing. If we are sitting, we only have… Read More »We Only Need to Be Aware

Our Perceptions are Us “The object of our mind can be a mountain, a rose, the full moon, or the person standing in front of… Read More »Our Perceptions are Us

Mind the Gap! Pay attention to the gap — the gap between two thoughts, the brief, silent space between words in a conversation, between the… Read More »Mind the Gap!