Daily Dharma

Instead of separate, discrete entities, everything is flowing, interacting, and impinging on each other. We and the sun and the trees, all is perpetual flowing.

Although renunciation may express itself in outward forms, its essence is the letting go of the mind’s habits of delusion. Even just a moment of such release is powerful, because it provides a reference point, an alternative to the false sense of self we ordinarily experience.

Being fully aware of something you enjoy is one way you can start to build up practice, patience, and perseverance.

We can be curious and open. We can inquire. And eventually, if we are lucky, the mind will wake up to itself and know its true nature.

Understanding the technique itself is not that difficult. It is learning right view about impermanence and emptiness that is crucial, engaging in the practice that allows us to be free from suffering.

Understanding the technique itself is not that difficult. It is learning right view about impermanence and emptiness that is crucial, engaging in the practice that allows us to be free from suffering.

When you give to others, you want to give attentively, you want to give with respect, you want to give out of compassion. And the best motivation, of course, is that you want to benefit your mind.

When you give to others, you want to give attentively, you want to give with respect, you want to give out of compassion. And the best motivation, of course, is that you want to benefit your mind.

The mark of a true practitioner is not what arises in your life and mind but how you work with what arises.

It turns out that life doesn’t need a purpose to simply be what it is. Does a tree need to find its purpose to grow? Does the wind need a reason to blow?