Daily Dharma

Constructive Engagement Seeing the goodness in someone does not imply ignoring their difficult qualities or unskillful actions. Rather, we can fully acknowledge these difficulties, while… Read More »Constructive Engagement

The Taoteching #12 The five colors make our eyes blindthe five tones make our ears deafthe five flavors make our mouths numbriding and hunting make… Read More »The Taoteching #12

Stillness = Intelligence Is stillness merely the absence of noise and content? No, it is intelligence itself — the underlying consciousness out of which every… Read More »Stillness = Intelligence

Behold These Whitened Bones How frail [the body] is!Frail and pestilent,It sickens, festers, and dies.Like every living thingIn the end it sickens and dies. Behold… Read More »Behold These Whitened Bones

What Can You Give? Siddhartha went to see Kamaswami, the merchant, and was shown into a rich house. Servants conducted him across costly carpets to… Read More »What Can You Give?

The Giver Should Be Thankful While Seisetsu was the master of Engaku in Kamakura, he required larger quarters since those in which he was teaching… Read More »The Giver Should Be Thankful

Energy for What is Better If it is better for me to be ill,Give me the energy to be ill. If it is better for… Read More »Energy for What is Better

A Guide for the Journey Many of us in the West try to travel a spiritual path by exploring all kinds of approaches. One of… Read More »A Guide for the Journey

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

Love and Affection Starts at Home The practice of metta (loving kindness), uncovering the force of love that can uproot fear, anger, and guilt, begins… Read More »Love and Affection Starts at Home