Dirty Hands,
Clean Dharma.
Clean Dharma.
Former prisoner. Union tradesman. Dharma student and teacher.
The hard Work of the dharma
The Dharma is getting up when you’d rather stay down. It’s the discipline to sit, the patience to keep at it, and the willingness to fail without giving up. Now and then, you catch a glimpse of what’s possible—flashes of clarity, of real, deep ease.
But the real test is coming back—over and over—to one sit, one act of restraint, one uncomfortable moment at a time. No shortcuts, no guarantees. Just effort, and the quiet truth that it pays off.
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Loosely, the goal was to offer a practice guide framed around the triple gem - the Buddha, the Dharma, and the Sangha - using language that more closely aligned with familiar understandings of the Buddhadharma.
Pain, in its myriad forms, is often the entry point for practice. Tragedy and heartbreak, discontent and unease, something among these inspires us toward something different. The Buddhist path offers a path out of the pain by transforming our relationship to it.
Defensiveness often arises when identity is challenged - when information about ourselves and the world runs counter to the way we view them, hold them, and maybe even cling to them.
Matthew draws on experiences firefighting and in incarcerated Buddhist communities to explore what it means to feel safe in a sangha, despite external circumstances.
There was a time in my life when I actively felt aversion for entire people, for everything about them, and I felt justified in doing so.
There are individual skills related to mindfulness that can be strengthened by performing different drills. Bite-sized, skill-focused mindfulness drills.