Patience is not gritting your teeth and putting up with something. Patience is a mind that wholeheartedly accepts whatever arises, having abandoned the notion that… Read More »The Daily Dharma – May 29, 2021

Announcement Tanzan wrote sixty postal cards on the last day of his life, and asked an attendant to mail them. Then he passed away. The… Read More »The Daily Dharma – May 28, 2021

The Tao is creation’s sanctuary treasured by the good it keeps the bad alive beautiful words might be the price noble deeds might be the… Read More »The Daily Dharma – May 27, 2021

Continuing from Touching Enlightenment; Finding Realization in the Body . . . In this, I am speaking not of the body we think we have,… Read More »The Daily Dharma – May 26, 2021

Continuing from Touching Enlightenment; Finding Realization in the Body . . . But there is a new wilderness, a new trackless waste, a new unknown… Read More »The Daily Dharma – May 25, 2021

Continuing from Touching Enlightenment; Finding Realization in the Body . . . Increasingly in this world of ours, there is no longer any geographical forest… Read More »The Daily Dharma – May 24, 2021

Continuing from Touching Enlightenment; Finding Realization in the Body . . . Within Indian culture, the forest was considered the ideal place for spiritual practice… Read More »The Daily Dharma – May 23, 2021

In the Buddhist past, when questions have arisen about the authenticity of institutionalized, conventionalized Buddhist organizations, politics, beliefs, and practices, practitioners have retired into the… Read More »The Daily Dharma – May 22, 2021

If You Love, Love Openly Twenty monks and one nun, who was named Eshun, were practicing meditation with a certain Zen master. Eshun was very… Read More »The Daily Dharma – May 21, 2021

Continuing from Love, Freedom, Aloneness; The Koan of Relationships . . . Then comes an even greater surprise: When you start giving your love to… Read More »The Daily Dharma – May 20, 2021