April 17, 2024 – A

Posted byjimwdollarPosted in06/25/2020
Boulder Beach — Otter Point, Acadia National Park, Maine
If we aren't yet Jesus and the Buddha,
we are the closest thing to both
that a lot of people will ever get,
and it would behoove us to realize this,
and do our best Jesus/Buddha imitation
when we are going about our business
in the world.

Our business is very much Jesus' business,
is very much the Buddha's business,
and how we carry ourselves while doing it
tells the tale we are here to tell.

Being ourselves as Jesus would be us.
Doing our thing as the Buddha would do it.
And consciously being us 
being Jesus and the Buddha being us,
puts us on a different plane
than if we were unconscious
of our association with either
while being us doing our thing.

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Published by jimwdollar

I'm retired, and still finding my way--but now, I don't have to pretend that I know what I'm doing. I retired after 40.5 years as a minister in the Presbyterian Church USA, serving churches in Louisiana, Mississippi and North Carolina. I graduated from Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary, in Austin, Texas, and Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana. My wife, Judy, and I have three daughters, five granddaughters, one great granddaughter, and a great grandson on the way, within about ten minutes from where we live--and are enjoying our retirement as much as we have ever enjoyed anything.

8 thoughts on “April 17, 2024 – A”

    1. Good of you to put me onto this! We’ll see where it goes. My initial reaction is, “Well, sure. Of course. We all are Thunder:Perfect Mind when we are being true to ourselves, aware of who we are, in a Thou Art That kind of way. Which is also a Neti Neti kind of way, a neither this nor that, both that and this, kind of way.”

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    1. This is an excellent resource for continuing the Gnostic/Taoist/Zen/Native American/Indigenous People’s path to intuitve/felt sense living! Gene Gendlin knew what he was doing! And so do you!

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  4. Your mention of Gene Gendlin sparked an exciting trip down memory lane of the books that I read during the late 70’s, 80’s, and 90’s! A painful ember of felt-sense is fired up every time I recognize Trump crossing another norm. I was an administrative assistant all my professional life, but my Mom came from a family of teachers and my Dad was a Stanford grad economist. I struggled with undiagnosed ADHD (hypo, not hyper), which made college seem unattainable. The relief of a diagnosis came when I was 58. I guess I became an autodidact with an underlying need to search for what was “wrong” with me. Most of my studies of Eugene Gendlin, Carl Rogers, Fritjof Capra, etc. occurred in 15-minute increments at restaurants in between pleasure reading when concepts from Gendlin or others overwhelmed me. I was blessed to find three or four study groups throughout the 90’s, including one on Systems Theory that met at Rand Institute in Santa Monica where I delivered a paper on the systems concepts of The Mondragon Cooperatives in the Basque Region of Spain. You reminded me of a time in my life when I experienced the loss of jobs while highlighted by the sustaining influence of my Study Circles. Plus, I have just experienced an exciting hour of remembering on Wikipedia the various authors who were so influential for me. Eventually, after 2000, I spent 15 years learning about cognitive behavioral therapy. I think CBT has helped me the most, especially when experienced in a group therapy sessions. Glad to connect with you today via Eugene Gendlin, Carl Rogers etc. Thank you!

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