The Daily Dharma – May 4, 2021
If we hold ourself in high esteem, we shall be reborn in the lower realms And later, as a human, experience low status and a… Read More »The Daily Dharma – May 4, 2021
If we hold ourself in high esteem, we shall be reborn in the lower realms And later, as a human, experience low status and a… Read More »The Daily Dharma – May 4, 2021
Is That So? The Zen master Hakuin was praised by his neighbors as one living a pure life. A beautiful Japanese girl whose parents owned… Read More »The Daily Dharma – May 3, 2021
The Old Man and the Beggar Many years ago, a man was sitting in quiet contemplation by a riverbank when he was disturbed by a… Read More »The Daily Dharma – May 2, 2021
Death overtakes the person Who gathers flowers When with distracted and thirsty senses He searches vainly for happiness In the pleasures of the world. Death… Read More »The Daily Dharma – May 1, 2021
Continuing from A New Earth . . . The quicker you are in attaching verbal or mental labels to things, people, or situations, the more… Read More »The Daily Dharma – April 30, 2021
Continuing from A New Earth . . . When you don’t cover us the world with words and labels, a sense of the miraculous returns… Read More »The Daily Dharma – April 29, 2021
Continuing from A New Earth . . . Underneath the surface appearance, everything is not only connected with everything else, but also with the Source… Read More »The Daily Dharma – April 28, 2021
Words, no matter whether they are vocalized and made into sounds or remain unspoken as thoughts, can cast an almost hypnotic spell upon you. You… Read More »The Daily Dharma – April 27, 2021
A Cup of Tea Nan-in, a Japanese master during the Meiji era (1868 – 1912), received a university professor who came to inquire about Zen.… Read More »The Daily Dharma – April 26, 2021
Understand that the body Is merely the foam of a wave, The shadow of a shadow. Snap the flower arrows of desire And then, unseen,… Read More »The Daily Dharma – April 25, 2021