March 15, 2025

Drop out, drop in is the recipe for balance and harmony on the heaving waves of the wine-dark sea.

Dropping out of the here, now with its noise, clamor, chaos and terminal insanity, and dropping into emptiness, stillness, silence to regroup, recharge and recover is the most brilliant strategy ever devised for reorienting ourselves, regrouping and finding the way through the wasteland to "Peaceful abiding, here, now."

Both the Buddha and Jesus heartedly recommended the practice. Jesus with his, "Pray always," and the Buddha with his, "Listen to yourself," were advising, "Tune out, turn on, drop in, as the old saying goes (With a little tweaking)." Which is all the direction we need to find the way that is the Way of the Tao, Enlightenment, and life everlasting.

When we drop into the silence and open ourselves to what meets us there, we encounter the clarity that emerges, arises, appears to direct us along the path to doing what is called for in each situation as it arises with the gifts of our original nature, our innate virtues (What we do best and enjoy doing most), our inherent imagination and our intrinsic intuition--which is all any of us have ever needed to rise to the occasion and do what needs to be done, when, where and how it needs to be done, through all that comes our way in all times and places. 

It is the universal practice for life everlasting, world without end. Amen.