Daily Dharma
One real, sourced Buddhist teaching each day — the same for everyone, refreshed at midnight. Read it, sit with it, or draw another. Every line is traceable to the Pali Canon, the Dhammapada, or a clearly named teacher, and links to its full source — never an unsourced “Buddha quote.”
“All conditioned things are impermanent. All conditioned things are unsatisfactory. All things are not-self.”
One real, sourced teaching each day — the same for everyone, refreshed at midnight. Your streak and kept teachings are saved only on this device; nothing is sent anywhere.
A small daily practice
A single teaching, met each morning, can do quiet work over time. Let the line stay with you through the day; notice where it touches your life. When one speaks to you, follow it to its full page to read the source and what it means — or turn it into a card to share, attribution intact.
Go deeper than a day’s line: browse all our sourced Buddhist quotes, the Dhammapada guide, or the Four Noble Truths. Want to make your own image? Try the quote-image maker, or see all our free tools.
Frequently asked questions
What is the Daily Dharma draw?
It is a free, no-signup tool that gives you one genuine, sourced Buddhist teaching each day — the same teaching for everyone, refreshed at midnight in your own time zone. You can also tap 'Draw another' any time for a different teaching to sit with, keep favourites, and turn any teaching into a shareable image.
Are the teachings real and accurately sourced?
Yes. Every teaching is drawn from our fact-checked quotes library — lines from the Pali Canon and the Dhammapada, or clearly attributed words of teachers like the Dalai Lama, Thich Nhat Hanh, and Shunryu Suzuki. Each one links to its full page, where you can read the source and context. There are no fabricated or misattributed 'Buddha quotes' here.
Does it change every day?
Yes — a new teaching appears each day, the same one for every visitor, so it works as a small daily ritual. It rotates through the whole library, and you can always draw another or return to today's.
Is anything stored about me?
No account, no tracking, nothing sent anywhere. Your return-visit streak and any teachings you 'keep' are saved only in your own browser, and you can clear them any time by clearing your site data.
Sources
- Dhammapada: The Path of Dhamma — Access to Insight, the complete text chapter by chapter, each chapter in Acharya Buddharakkhita's translation (Buddhist Publication Society, 1985) alongside Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu's — the deck's largest block: 14 of its 39 teachings are Dhammapada verses in Buddharakkhita's wording (Dhp 1, 5, 35, 58–59, 80, 81, 103, 160, 165, 183, 204, 223, 252, 277–279)
- Karaṇīya Mettā Sutta (Snp 1.8), 'The Buddha's Words on Loving-Kindness' — Access to Insight (trans. The Amaravati Sangha) — two of the deck's teachings, verbatim: the mother guarding her only child, and kindness radiated 'upwards to the skies, and downwards to the depths'
- Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta (SN 56.11), 'Setting the Wheel of Dhamma in Motion' — Access to Insight (trans. Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu) — the first discourse, which gives the deck two lines: the middle way that 'leads to calm, to direct knowledge, to self-awakening, to Unbinding', and the third noble truth's letting go of craving
- Kalama Sutta (AN 3.65), 'To the Kalamas' — Access to Insight (trans. Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu) — the 'don't go by reports, by legends, by traditions' teaching the deck carries verbatim as one of its 39 cards
- Bāhiya Sutta (Ud 1.10) — Access to Insight (trans. Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu) — 'In reference to the seen, there will be only the seen…', the Udāna instruction the deck carries
- Maha-parinibbana Sutta (DN 16), 'Last Days of the Buddha' — Access to Insight (trans. Sister Vajira & Francis Story) — the Buddha's last words as the deck gives them: 'All compounded things are subject to vanish. Strive with earnestness.'
- Bhaya-bherava Sutta (MN 4), 'Fear & Terror' — Access to Insight (trans. Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu) — 'Ignorance was destroyed; knowledge arose; darkness was destroyed; light arose', the awakening-night line in the deck
- Nibbedhika Sutta (AN 6.63), 'Penetrative' — Access to Insight (trans. Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu) — 'Intention, I tell you, is kamma', the deck's one-line definition of kamma
- Dona Sutta (AN 4.36), 'With Dona' — Access to Insight (trans. Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu) — the lotus 'born in the water, grown in the water, rising up above the water' that the deck serves
- His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, 'The purpose of life is to be happy' — dalailama.com (originally published by India Today, 30 September 2021) — his own words on his official site for the deck's compassion teaching: 'if you want others to be happy, practise compassion, if you want to be happy, practise compassion'