Daily Dharma

The Work and Power of Lovingkindness The Daiai Lama has said: “My religion is kindness.” If we all adopted such a stance and embodied it… Read More »The Work and Power of Lovingkindness

Wanting More and More, and Never Being Satisfied With a more relaxed mind than on my first train excursion, I found that my companions looked… Read More »Wanting More and More, and Never Being Satisfied

Eckhart Tolle on the Dark Night of the Soul “Are you experiencing a dark night of the soul? Eckhart shares that he has experienced it… Read More »Eckhart Tolle on the Dark Night of the Soul

The Power of Vulnerability A classic TED talk, worth watching again! This presentation on vulnerability was given over a decade ago by Brené Brown who… Read More »The Power of Vulnerability

Dark Virtue Can you hold fast your crescent soul and not let it wandercan you make your breath as soft as a baby’scan you mark… Read More »Dark Virtue

Be Harmless, Be Blameless Believe, meditate, see.Be harmless, be blamelessAwake to the Dharma.And from all sorrow free yourself The DhammapadaChapter: Violence

We Barely Exist As Individual Organisms “Human beings are astoundingly attuned to subtle emotional shifts in the people (and animals) around them. Slight changes in… Read More »We Barely Exist As Individual Organisms

Darkness Is an Integral Part of Life “Though there are many different traditions within the Abrahamic religions, they all tend to have principal differences from… Read More »Darkness Is an Integral Part of Life

Five Poisons, Five Wisdoms “The five poisons are directly correlated with the five wisdoms. They are experienced differently, but their fundamental nature is the same.… Read More »Five Poisons, Five Wisdoms

Compassion for Our Obstacles “Someone might imagine spirituality to be a form of biting the lip, becoming a sort of spiritual soldier facing a formidable… Read More »Compassion for Our Obstacles