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?
The Shape of Time 15 — Sandstone shaped by water flowing underground in Lower Antelope Canyon, Page, AZ, 2009
The Buddha died from eating poorly cooked pork. How enlightened was that? Enlightenment is not a steady state of being. False assumptions never announce themselves in advance. We can't take anything for granted. What are we overlooking here, now? What is interfering with our being awake, aware, alive to what's happening now, moment to moment, day to day? If you said, "Ten thousand things!" you would be close.
Training ourselves in the art of seeing/hearing/knowing is on-going and everlasting. We do that by looking/listening/asking/ seeking always and forever. Practicing being tuned into now all the time.
What interferes with that? What keeps that from happening? We are always here, now. Why not BE here, now? Aware of what is here with us now? Stop throughout each day to be aware here, now. Make that our practice. Why not?
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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