Daily Dharma

The Tao driftsit can go left or righteverything lives by its gracebut it doesn’t speakwhen its work succeedsit makes not claimit has no desiresshall we… Read More »The Daily Dharma – February 19, 2022

Better than a hundred years of worship,Better than a thousand offerings,Better than giving up a thousand worldly waysIn order to win merit,Better even than tending… Read More »The Daily Dharma – February 17, 2022

Is it wrong then to be proud of one’s possessions or to feel resentful toward people who have more than you? Not at all. That… Read More »The Daily Dharma – February 15, 2022

The Student, portrait painting study by Seamus Berkeley “Every day on our television screens and in our nation’s newspapers we are brought news of continued… Read More »The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love by bell hooks

[The certainty of death and the uncertainty of its timing] is not a lesson to be put off. One great teacher explained it this way:… Read More »The Daily Dharma – February 13, 2022

Karma, then, is the arrangement of our life so that we learn. It is not some impersonal mechanism that just lands on us. In this… Read More »The Daily Dharma – February 10, 2022

There is no curriculum and no particular format [in the Soto Zen tradition]. This has suited me because I find I resist things that are… Read More »The Daily Dharma – February 9, 2022

Why do people love so well the fetters that make them slaves to their passions? Yasa (the sixth disciple of the Buddha)from Footprints of Guatama… Read More »The Daily Dharma – February 8, 2022