What is the meaning of "The Dharma Prescription"? 

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For many years, I have been a medical doctor and and have worked in nearly every imaginable aspect of the medical system-- from the emergency room, to community-clinics serving the poorest of the poor, to private practice serving the very wealthy. I have taken care of every socio-economic status, every religion, every race, creed and political affiliation. After all this exposure, you start to notice patterns of human behavior. Naturally, each group has their own unique sets of challenges with which one has to understand and adapt to; but there are still common threads between them all and most of us really are more alike than we are different, at the end of the day. 

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What does this have to do with Dharma? Well, it has become clear to me that nothing in this world will ever have any lasting change until each individual makes a change. We can hope to change political institutions, but if those institutions are composed of broken people, how can we expect the institution to not create broken policies? We can hope to have private industry create products that are not detrimental to their consumers, or for the CEO class to not take advantage of their workforce-- but if the leadership does not have an ethical compass to guide them, how will that really ever happen? It seems to me a pipe dream of utopian fantasy that the world will become a better place for everyone, until each of us begins to take responsibility for our own actions and begin to live by higher ethical standards. Rather than trying to change the world, it is time to change ourselves. As Rumi so beautifully stated, "Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today, I am wise, so I am changing myself". 

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So, what is the "Prescription" to the world's ills? In my humble opinion, it is learning and adhering to what the Hindus call "Dharma". While this has no direct translation into English, it is often defines as "Duty", "Righteousness", or "The Way of Being". In this belief, Dharma is the eternal principles that are common to all ethical and religious denominations-- the values of Truth, Love, Compassion, Duty, Honor, Non-Violence, etc. 

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As part of this belief, I am planning on creating content that will be shared here in the future to help do my little part, however insignificant, in the fostering of Dharma in this world, and in so doing, hopefully will have helped make the world a better place. Stay tuned. 

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