Daily Dharma

Emptying Your Backpack “Robert Bly said that we spend the first twenty tears of life filling a backpack with a variety of impressions and experiences…… Read More »Emptying Your Backpack

Home “This entire world is my home, and anywhere I go will have something to teach me. The exact location is not the important part.… Read More »Home

Kindness “Kindness in WORDS creates confidence, Kindness in thinking creates profoundness, Kindness in giving creates Love.” ~ Lao Tzu

Peel Off Your Mask! I have been told by psychologists that personality traits of young children between the ages of three and six develop into… Read More »Peel Off Your Mask!

Your Light May Go Out A student of Tendai, a philosophical school of Buddhism, came to the Zen abode of Gasan as a pupil. When… Read More »Your Light May Go Out

Farmers, Fletchers & Carpenters The farmer channels water to his land.The fletcher whittles her arrows.The carpenter turns his wood.And the wise person masters herself. The… Read More »Farmers, Fletchers & Carpenters

The Truth About Fear Fear — convincing as it may seem — is actually a conceptual mistake. What is there to be afraid of anyway?… Read More »The Truth About Fear

The Hundred-Character Tablet of Lu Yan Nurturing energy, forget words and guard it.Conquer the mind, do non-doing.In activity and quietude, know the source progenitor.There is… Read More »The Hundred-Character Tablet of Lu Yan

Letting Go of What’s Unnecessary We can travel a long way and do many different things, but our deepest happiness is not born from accumulating… Read More »Letting Go of What’s Unnecessary

Take refuge “Take refuge in yourselves, not in anything else. In you are Buddha (trust), Dharma (wisdom), and Sangha (community). Don’t look for things that… Read More »Take refuge