September 25, 2025

The old Taoists were right about it all.  
"Circumstances begetting circumstances,"
was their explanation for everything being what it is.

Circumstances call for what needs to happen next.
And we are called, by our circumstances,
to size things up and determine what is called for here, now, and do the right thing, 
at the right time,
in the right way,
and the right place,
trusting that to be "The next right thing"
that leads us to the right thing after that
all the way that is the way that unfolds before us through time.

That is a lot better than waiting for Godot,
or for Jesus to come back with a vengeance 
and unleash Armageddon to make everyone really sorry for what they have done and make the righteous finally happy at last.

The people that created that scenario formed the Church of Rome during the four centuries between Jesus' death and the closing of the Holy Scriptures that say what's what and what better be done about it.

Would that the Taoists had held sway.

But, circumstances being what they were, the Holy Church in its wisdom made up what passes for revealed truth, and here we are.

If this is the best God can do, God should be ashamed, no?
And if this is not the best God can do, God should be even more ashamed, no? Better to be done with "the whole catastrophe" and start over with circumstances begetting circumstances and dropping into the silence to see what we can find there that might work something like democracy only without money calling the shots and running the show.

Money is the kink in the hose. 

Money was the end of Taoism all those years ago. Zen is what happened when Taoism met Buddhism rolling in from India into China and Japan with its new way of thinking/doing and making converts by the thousands and raking in the money. So Taoism evolved into Zen in order to claim market share, as circumstances created circumstances some more and here we are. With money calling the shots and running the show, to the good of only those with money.

How can we hope to do the right thing at the right time in the right way and the right place with money in charge,
and "what's right" is what makes the most money for those deciding what to do here, now? 

When what's right is determined by what makes the most money it all goes to hell in short order. No?

And here we are. No?