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May 21 – A, 2023

A hammock is my version of a Zazen cushion. Zen purists will have none of it, but. A Zen purist is an anomaly. A contradiction in terms. Purists have no pace within light years of Zen. They cannot accuse me of Zenlessness without establishing their own Zenlessness as well. Zen popularized the phrase, “If youContinue reading “May 21 – A, 2023”

May 20-B, 2023

Jesus’ question, “Who do you say that I am?” came immediately following, “Who do others say that I am?” And sets the seat of authority squarely upon the individuals he is addressing, and not upon any self-proclaimed contemporary authority, or any self-proclaimed “Orthodox” authority that might appear at any point in the future. Jesus alsoContinue reading “May 20-B, 2023”

May 20-A, 2023

Faith is always faith in someone else’s faith. Belief is always believing what someone else tells us to believe. Bringing to mind Lao Tzu’s observation in 500 +/- BCE, “A path that can be discerned as a path is not a reliable path.” It is someone else’s path. And we have to find our ownContinue reading “May 20-A, 2023”

May 19-A, 2023

I understand that there is a direct relationship between pancreatic cancer and an elevated blood sugar count. Googleit. Reducing our sugar intake reduces our chance of developing pancreatic cancer. You might think this information would be more of a thing. But what would that do to the economy? Particularly the sugar industry, and the sodaContinue reading “May 19-A, 2023”

May 18-A, 2023

Coming to terms with the day– with our life– means seeing the day (our life) just as it is, and allowing that to be that without any more emotional response than that associated with letting a tree be the tree it is, or letting a cloud be the cloud it is. Seeing things as theyContinue reading “May 18-A, 2023”

May 17-B, 2023

I need the right kind of emptiness, stillness and silence. I am waiting on the next realization. Enlightenment is realization. We are enlightened one realization at a time. There is no absolute state of enlightenment. There is no end to realization. We all are waking up to what’s what and what needs to be doneContinue reading “May 17-B, 2023”

May 17-A, 2023

All my heroes are one-dimensional as far as I can tell. The Buddha was “One thus come,” with no airs about him. He gave up the multi-dimensional life for a begging bowl, and was happy just being who he was. Everybody who knows what’s important is that way, and they don’t stray far from theContinue reading “May 17-A, 2023”

May 16-B, 2023

What’s it going to take for us to make peace with our life? To square up with how things are and what that means for us here and now in each situation as it arises? Our parents are our parents, our point of origin is our point of origin, our choices have been our choices,Continue reading “May 16-B, 2023”

May 16-A, 2023

Everything spins according to the outcome we want to achieve. It’s the Rorschach applied to dreams and life. What do we see when we look? At whatever we look at? What do we see when we look again? What do we want to see? What do we want it to be? What we look at.Continue reading “May 16-A, 2023”

May 15-B, 2023

It is all coincidental. Coincidence. Synchronicity. Accident. And what we do with it. Nothing is intentional. Intended. Planned. Plotted. Meant to be. It just seems that way because it is all so perfect how could any of it be accidental? We see what we look for. We see what we project onto what we lookContinue reading “May 15-B, 2023”

May 15-A, 2023

The super weapons we all possess are our perspective, perceptions, awareness, clarity, instincts, intuition, sense of timing, awareness of the path, accord with the flow of vitality/life, our original nature and innate virtues/specialties. Trusting ourselves to these inner quailities and sensitive to the coincidental alignment of outer circumstances, we are well-equipped to find our wayContinue reading “May 15-A, 2023”

May 14-B, 2023

We live looking for diversion/distraction/entertainment– anything to pass the time with nothing worth our time to do. The same old same old gets boring fast. There is nothing in any of it that interests us, enthuses us, captures our attention and our presence so that we lose track of time and can’t believe it isContinue reading “May 14-B, 2023”