Daily Dharma

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

Stillness Speaks True intelligence operates silently. Stillness is where creativity and solutions are found. Eckhart Tollefrom Stillness SpeaksChapter: Silence & Stillness

The Taoteching #11 Thirty spokes converge on a hubbut it’s the emptinessthat makes a wheel workposts are fashioned from claybut it’s the hollowthat makes the… Read More »The Taoteching #11

Look Behind the Curtain The world is on fire!And are you laughing?You are deep in the dark.Will you not ask for light? For behold your… Read More »Look Behind the Curtain

The Ultimate Good Friend The Pali word “metta” (translation: loving-kindness) has two root meanings. One is the word for “gentle.” Metta is likened to a… Read More »The Ultimate Good Friend

The Misguided Quest for Perfection The idealism that leads to a desire for, or addiction to perfection on the spiritual path can be, psychologically, very… Read More »The Misguided Quest for Perfection

Engaging With the World to Help People “It is important here to understand that developing bodhicitta is not merely a grand ideal for taking beings… Read More »Engaging With the World to Help People

Shantideva Says… “In The Way of the Bodhisattva, Shantideva says, May I become a protector for those who are helpless.May I become a guide for… Read More »Shantideva Says…

The Trap of the Eight Worldly Concerns “Some of our suffering comes from our relationships to the external world and people. Because we are social… Read More »The Trap of the Eight Worldly Concerns