Living the Dharma Life

Living the Dharma Life

Living the Dharma Life is not, by definition, a practice. It is not something one does. It is the growing awareness or feeling that “these events take place in the AWARE empty space in which everything happens.”

Awareness is all that is. Awareness cannot be developed, expanded, achieved, attained, or become something else. It is fundamental to being. There is never a moment when Awareness ceases. In life or death, whether sleeping, dreaming, or awake, Awareness remains its foundation. We are the appearances, the events, the sensations that arise within Awareness.

As that Awareness, there is no need to still the mind, change one’s activities, or modify behavior outside the normal rhythm of life. There is simply a movement away from a ‘me’ who does something, toward abiding or remaining as Awareness itself. All phenomena—thoughts, emotions, actions—arise and subside upon the unchanging foundation of Awareness.

The immediacy of the Dharma Life as Awareness is NOW, not at some point in the distant future. Living the Dharma as Awareness is available at any moment, whether at work, at home, or in any circumstance. It is not conditional on external conditions or inner states; it is simply the recognition that everything is already taking place within the open space of Awareness.

From this perspective, life is no longer a series of efforts or achievements. There is a gentle attunement to the unfolding of experience, a recognition that all appearances—pleasant or difficult—emerge and dissolve within the vastness of Awareness. Living the Dharma Life is therefore not a goal to reach but a realization to inhabit, moment by moment.

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