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Want nothing. Where there is desire, Say nothing. The Dhammapada Chapter: The Wise Person

Identification with Things The people in the advertising industry know very well that in order to sell things that people don’t really need, they must… Read More »The Daily Dharma – October 19, 2021

The fact that some form of loving must precede true knowing helps us appreciate why the prophets used the intimate word for carnal knowledge or… Read More »The Daily Dharma – October 18, 2021

The wise person is clarity. Hearing the truth, She is like a lake, Pure and tranquil and deep. The DhammapadaChapter: The Wise Person

Continuing from Peace is the Way . . . Like any habit, war has worn a groove in our minds, so that when we become very afraid… Read More »The Daily Dharma – October 16, 2021

Continuing from Peace is the Way . . . At the outset of 2003 it was estimated that thirty military conflicts were being fought around the world.… Read More »The Daily Dharma – October 15, 2021

Today is a good day for war to come to an end. The symbolic number of 1,000 U.S. casualties was passed today in Iraq –… Read More »The Daily Dharma – October 14, 2021

It is silence that keeps us from giving full rein to the empty imaginings and cruel commentaries always too fresh at hand in our narcissistic… Read More »The Daily Dharma – October 13, 2021

Three Days More Suiwo, THE DISCIPLE of Hakuin, was a good teacher. During one summer seclusion period, a pupil came to him from a southern… Read More »The Daily Dharma – October 12, 2021

In the end, commerce is a way of helping each other fulfill our human needs. Thirteenth-century Japanese Zen master Dogen says in his essay, The Bodhisattva’s… Read More »The Daily Dharma – October 11, 2021