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

It is apparent that the mere knowledge that a [person] was either a camp guard or a camp prisoner tells us almost nothing. Human kindness… Read More »The Daily Dharma – June 28, 2021

During the war in Vietnam, I saw communists and anti-communists killing and destroying each other because each side believed they had a monopoly on the… Read More »The Daily Dharma – June 27, 2021

If the traveler cannot findMaster or friend to go with her,Let her travel on aloneRather than with a fool for company. The DhammapadaChapter: The Fool

The good news is: If you can recognize illusion as illusion, it dissolves. The recognition of illusion is also its ending. Its survival depends on… Read More »The Daily Dharma – June 25, 2021

“Wondering” is a word connoting at least three things: Standing in disbelief Standing in the question itself Standing in awe before something Try letting all… Read More »The Daily Dharma – June 24, 2021