Daily Dharma

Ultimate Shelter from Sorrow In fear, a person may shelter In mountains or in forests, In groves of sacred trees or in shrines. But how… Read More »Ultimate Shelter from Sorrow

The Fool’s Dream To explain the dream Within a dream Is a fool’s dream Edgar Allen Poe _____________________ TLC (“The Lotus Center”) in the Community… Read More »The Fool’s Dream

Nature and Mind ” . . . the capacity of concentration and self-observation, as well as our psychic sensitivity, is increased a hundredfold in the… Read More »Nature and Mind

The Unspeakable Word with Alan Watts

Being at Peace with Yourself, and with the World You say you feel lonely. The whole creation and the Creator are within you. If you… Read More »Being at Peace with Yourself, and with the World

Us vs. Them The egoic sense of self needs conflict because its sense of a separate identity gets strengthened in fighting against this or that… Read More »Us vs. Them

The Taoteching #30 Use the Tao to help your king don’t use weapons to rule the land such things soon return where armies camp brambles grow… Read More »The Taoteching #30

There is Room for Everything Through me course wide rivers and in me rise tall mountains. And beyond the thickets of my agitation and confusion… Read More »There is Room for Everything

The Other Side One day a young girl on her journey home came to the banks of a wide river. Staring hopelessly at the great… Read More »The Other Side

Following, Like a Never-departing Shadow Mind precedes all mental states. Mind is their chief; they are all mind-wrought. If with an impure mind a person… Read More »Following, Like a Never-departing Shadow