Daily Dharma

I Looked for My Self, But My Self was Gone I looked for my self, but my self was gone.The boundaries of my beinghad disappeared… Read More »I Looked for My Self, But My Self was Gone

Disturbing Noises Point to Silence Any disturbing noise can be as helpful as silence. How? By dropping your inner resistance to the noise, by allowing… Read More »Disturbing Noises Point to Silence

Letting Go of the Unnecessary We can travel a long way and do many different things, but our deepest happiness is not born from accumulating… Read More »Letting Go of the Unnecessary

No Freedom from Doubts, No Freedom He who goes naked,With matted hair, mud-besplattered,Who fasts and sleeps on the groundAnd smears his body with ashesAnd sits… Read More »No Freedom from Doubts, No Freedom

The Stingy Artist Gessen was an artist monk. Before he would start a drawing or painting he always insisted upon being paid in advance, and… Read More »The Stingy Artist

Allowing the Waves to Come I saw that instead of needing to get rid of my panic [attacks], I had to become familiar with the… Read More »Allowing the Waves to Come

Inner Stillness Arising Silence is helpful, but you don’t need it in order to find stillness. Even when there is noise, you can be aware… Read More »Inner Stillness Arising

The Nature of Aliveness “Our raw aliveness is both the source of particular feelings and the energy circulating fluidity within them, just as water is… Read More »The Nature of Aliveness

An experience among experiences “Gaps in the mindstream– spaces between thoughts, moments of quiet, and diffuse felt senses–represent a relative kind of emptiness. These gaps… Read More »An experience among experiences

Vast “When we are in touch with the ground of our being, we generally feel more expansive. Space feels dynamic, light or full, and there… Read More »Vast