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We at the Dharma Kitchen invite you to travel with us on a journey of healthy tasteful living. We believe that food does not have to be boring to be healthy or exercise painful to be effective, and we will strive to bring you the recipes and exercise tips that have helped us on our quest for a healthier balanced lifestyle. Please feel free to comment on all posts because we want this blog to be yours as well as ours.
RD and AHK

Why the name “The Dharma Kitchen?”

I have always had an interest in various religious/spiritual ideals and concepts.  Many moons ago in my research, I came across the notion of dharma.  I was captured instantly, I understood the meaning on multiple levels, and it has remained one of the guiding principals of my life ever since.  Possessing multiple meanings in several Indian religions, dharma is difficult to translate into a single word in English.  It would, therefore, be logical to explain the term in the simplest fashion.  Think of dharma as ideal balance. It signifies behaviors of living in harmony and accord with the universe by practicing ideas of purification, transformation, and righteousness.  Those who know me know that I like to know the linguistic history of word, so here it goes.  The root syllable dhr comes from classical Sanskrit and means to ‘hold, maintain, and keep’ in balance. 

The Dharma Kitchen is my way of coming into balance with the most pressing issue, out-of-balance issue in my life—my health.  Although I sought after and worked to find balance in many aspects of my life, my weight and eating habits were always in flux tilting more and more toward an unstable and imbalanced (adharma) lifestyle that was literally killing me slowly.  Over the past three years, my efforts to find balance have lead me here.  It has become time to put into practice some of the principles I learned while sitting under the moon.

AHK