“Dharma” is everything; it is a very intimate and personal way of looking at everything we do • what are our preconceptions, our beliefs, our hopes and dreams? • have we really ever felt comfortable in our own skins? • do we even know who we really are? • dharma is every experience, from the most profane to the most profound • it includes our neuroses and our sanity, our fear and our courage • it is seeing the profundity of our immediate, ordinary experience just as it is • dharma is what is, right now, here and now • dharma is truth, which we can only access by looking immediately from our own personal standpoint • when we meditate we are learning to be here and now; we are learning to be receptive to what the world is presenting to us