Dharma Communications Audio Books

Our ordinary point of view divides the world in two. Me and you, right and wrong, success and failure....

Zen Buddhism emphasizes meditation as the means to study ourselves and understand who we truly are....

Zen Buddhism emphasizes meditation as the means to study ourselves and understand who we truly are....

When we think of spiritual powers, we usually imagine walking on water or performing some kind of miracle....

Zen Buddhism emphasizes meditation as the means to study ourselves and understand who we truly are....

Human beings spend most of their time talking to themselves. Constantly preoccupied with the past and the future, we live in a perpetual state of distraction and mental turmoil.

Shopping and spending money is a major part of our culture, and few of us are immune to the seductions of consumerism. Big business knows this, and they count on the fact that we are all conditioned to crave what we do not have.

We all want to maintain control over our lives: our relationships, our work, our health, even our moods. We want to know where we're going and what's going to happen when we get there.

Every day we are faced with moral decisions, and it's often difficult to know how to act. If there's a snake in our garden, do we kill it? If our co-worker is stealing from the company, is it our obligation to speak up?

In the modern world, we are encouraged to be special, to be different and stand out from everyone else. Zen Buddhism has a different approach, encouraging us instead to be "nothing special".