Daily Dharma

Just because you’ve been a certain kind of person for who knows how long doesn’t mean you have to continue being that kind of person.

One of the beautiful reminders of Buddhism is that we are among a group of people coming together to practice the 2,500-year-old teachings of the Buddha.

You must not hurt people, you must not hurt yourself, and the most obvious way to avoid suffering for yourself and others is to be careful of your reactions to form and sound.

When you’re at home and everything is familiar, it’s hard to remember how miraculous everything is. When you go to a new place, everything freshens up.

When we just say, “I am,” and open our eyes around us, we intuitively see that those others are also included in “I am.”

It is only when one identifies totally with mumyo, the heart of darkness, that the walls of the proud ego-self are shattered and the true light of wisdom can shine through in one’s actions.

Since we never cease to change, the same must hold true of the dharma.

Sensing how death is woven into the fabric of life can ease facing your own demise. Upon death, all of us will transform in ways that offer supportive energy.

Present in the moment, we are present to ourselves, and perhaps also to the universal truths that the Buddha made available.

To be one’s own mainstay is to be one’s own self-help. Teaching us to do that is the Buddha’s ultimate gift.