“Let them know my work.Let everyone look to me for direction.”Such are [the fool’s] desires,Such is her swelling pride. One way leads to wealth and… Read More »The Daily Dharma – August 13, 2021

When you have completed [the reflection of casting your memory back across your whole life and bringing to mind two things that you did that… Read More »The Daily Dharma – August 12, 2021

Our True Home When you practice the bell of mindfulness, you breath in, and you listen deeply to the sound of the bell, and you… Read More »The Daily Dharma – August 11, 2021

One Gets Accustomed to Everything A woman from the fragrant countryside married a man who lived near a tannery. This tannery, where leather is prepared,… Read More »The Daily Dharma – August 10, 2021

Whatever a fool learns,It only makes him duller.Knowledge cleaves his head.For then he wants recognition,A place before other people,A place over other people. The DhammapadaChapter:… Read More »The Daily Dharma – August 9, 2021

As Walpola Rahula, in What the Buddha Taught, pointed out, Buddhism has always maintained that spirituality is not the possession of any one tradition. In… Read More »The Daily Dharma – August 8, 2021

The Illusory Self (continued) Some people never forget the first time they disidentified from their thoughts and thus briefly experienced the shift in identity from… Read More »The Daily Dharma – August 7, 2021

A Mother’s Advice Jiun, a Shingon master, was a well-known Sanskrit scholar of the Tokugawa era. When he was young he used to deliver lectures… Read More »The Daily Dharma – August 6, 2021

Yes and noAren’t so far apartLovely and uglyAren’t so unlikeWhat others fearWe too must fearBefore the moon wanesEveryone is gayAs if they were at the… Read More »The Daily Dharma – August 5, 2021

To understand more deeply what evokes this sense of [the] preciousness [of all things] and how it gives meaning to a path with heart, let… Read More »The Daily Dharma – August 4, 2021