February 12, 2026

Monument Valley Sunset — Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park, Mexican Hat, Arizona

This is from 200 Zen Thoughts #3 On My Word Press Site:

106. Our intuition knows. We need to know how to know what our intuition knows–and how to apply it in the right way. We are back to the days of the Tao and knowing what the Tao know. They who knew in those days knew that the Tao knew how to do the right thing in the right way at the right time in the right place. That is what our intuition knows today. Our intuition reads the Tao and may as well BE the Tao for all the difference there is between our intuition and the Tao.

So. That puts us in the place of knowing what our intuition knows. The first step in that process is GETTING OUT OF THE WAY!!! This is critical. We aren’t actually interested in knowing what our intuition knows, We are interested in knowing how to get what we want. No one who ever lived aligned with the Tao was interested in having/getting their way. In having/getting what they wanted. We cannot want anything more than, beyond than, being one with the Tao. That is IT. That is All There Is! And that is what keeps us from knowing and living in sync with the Tao. But. Our intuition knows. And is waiting on us to have what it takes to know what it knows and to do what it knows we have to do. We are the kink in the hose.

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.

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