The Illusory Self (continued) And so as the child grows up, the original I-thought attracts other thoughts to itself: It becomes identified with a gender,… Read More »The Daily Dharma – July 8, 2021

Muddy Road Tanzan and Ekido were once travelling together down a muddy road. A heavy rain was still falling. Coming around a bend, they met… Read More »The Daily Dharma – July 7, 2021

Functioning things such as our body are impermanent, momentary phenomena, being the result of past causes and the cause of future effects.  Geshe Kelsang Gyatsofrom… Read More »The Daily Dharma – July 6, 2021

The night will end, as will all roads.The endless cycle of birth and death will also endwhen we chose the way of the Dharma.  Scott Zager

What is Forest Bathing? (continued) In the practice of forest bathing we immerse our senses in the special qualities of the fluid, oceanic ambience of… Read More »The Daily Dharma – July 4, 2021

The teachings in this book are about finding such a path with heart, about undertaking a path that transforms and touches us in the center… Read More »The Daily Dharma – July 3, 2021

A Buddha In Tokyo in the Meiji era there lived two prominent teachers of opposite characteristics. One, Unsho, an instructor in Shingon, kept Buddha’s precepts… Read More »The Daily Dharma – July 2, 2021

The Illusory Self When a young child learns that a sequence of sounds produced by the parents’ vocal cords is his or her name, the… Read More »The Daily Dharma – July 1, 2021

Charity is the True Pilgrimage One of the Mohammedan Saints… once prepared to go to Mecca on a pilgrimage. Mecca is a holy place for… Read More »The Daily Dharma – June 30, 2021

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to… Read More »The Daily Dharma – June 29, 2021