Daily Dharma

“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!

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