“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