Dharma means ‘The Way’— it is the way things are, and also the path by which we learn to recognize things for what they are, and ourselves for who we are. It is the truth, reality, the Tao. It is God, not as a person, but as a principle of infinite creativity. It is freedom. It is life itself; ease, seeing, hearing, loving. It is poetry, it is silence, intelligence, laughter, music. It is also the thing inside all those things, at their center, beating deeper and steadier than the heart itself, beyond birth and death
Ordinary Dharma means not setting ourselves apart, through pride, or confusion, or fear, as we walk the path. It means that life as we find it is already a miracle.
