Finding our way to The Way one situation at a time. I don't know how great it will be, but I expect it will be interesting, and I look forward to it going on past all reason because wonder is just that way. Are you coming or not?
Mt. Rundle, Vermilion Lakes — Banff National Park, Alberta, Canadian Rockies
The real Holy Trinity are:
Our Original Nature, sometimes called our "Buddha Nature," or our "Christ Nature."
Our innate virtues--
I'm breaking here to quote Alan Watts in The Way of Zen: "When we have learned to let our mind alone so that it functions in the integrated and spontaneous way that is natural to it, we begin to show the special kind of "virtue" or "power" called te. This is not virtue in the current sense of moral rectitude but in the older sense of effectiveness, as one speaks of the healing virtuesof a plant. Te is unaffected or spontaneous virtue which cannot be cultivated or imitated by any deliberate method. Lao-Tzu says, "Superior te is not te, and thus has te. Inferior te does not let go of te, and thus is not te. Superior te is non-active (wu-wie) and aimless. Inferior te is active and has an aim." Or, to translate: Superior virtue is not conscious of itself as virtue, and thus really is virtue. Inferior virtue cannot dispense with virtuosity, and thus is not virtue."
--the things we do best and enjoy/love doing most.
Our intrinsic intuition which knows the truth and leads us in the way of truth through all situations and circumstances all our life long.
Living in everlasting service to this Holy Trinity puts us squarely in the company of the Christ, the Buddha, and the Saints in Light, and opens the way to eternal life, joy and the peace of enlightenment, liberation, realization and wonder always and evermore.
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.
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