Category: Dharma Journal

Every time I enter our little Dharma Center I am surprised. Surprised that it happened to begin with. Surprised that it is still here. I know on a relative level I and my lineage...

I recently read a news report about 30,000 monks from Thailand and Myanmar gathered together next to the airport in Mandalay City. It was an alms giving event where thousands of devotees came to...

When we enter the spiritual path, we carry with us all the annoying habits that cause us to want to be free of them. What a sentence! It is precisely our afflictive emotions and...

I used to manually shovel snow for our home and that of three to five neighbors. It is a labor of love but my 66-year-old body is not as adaptable to this kind of...

If you are a practitioner of Vajrayana Buddhism, you will eventually come across teachings about the dying process referred to as the Tibetan Book of the Dead. The Tibetan title is Bardo Thödol which...

There is dry and then there is dry. I am speaking of the kind of dryness one might experience in the desert. Here in the high desert of central Oregon, depending on the location,...

Many years ago, my father purchased a dining table with a hand carved wooden base from a Mexican artist south of the border. He carted it to his home in Sedona, Arizona, and went...

I saw a documentary about an organization called reStart, referring to restarting a life after escaping the snare of internet addiction. This was the first residential digital addiction recovery center in the U.S. Many...

As children, we stared upwards and saw clouds morph into shapes of bunnies and dragons, mountains and valleys, smiling gods and wrathful demons. We occupied a mind closer to the mythopoeic (myth-making) minds of...

“Tangled within, tangled without: these people are tangled in tangles. I ask you this, Gotama: Who can untangle this tangle?” In the Samyutta Nikaya, Buddha is asked how we can untangle the mess we have created through...