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March 09-B, 2023

Don’t be afraid of the dark! What’s money good for? “Darkness is the cradle of the light,” said Rumi. Money is good for sex, drugs and alcohol. These times are asking/forcing us to revise our opinions about darkness and money. The times are always good for one thing, and one thing only: Waking us up!Continue reading “March 09-B, 2023”

March 09-A, 2023

When the next door neighbor’s house was broken into, we decided the time has come, and a home security system will be installed on Saturday. Since then, four other homes have had forced entry, and the entire development is experiencing vulnerability for the first time in it’s 30-year existence. We live in a cul-de-sac withContinue reading “March 09-A, 2023”

March 08-B, 2023

Things are not what they are supposed to be. Integrity is lacking everywhere. Deception reigns. Life is a trick done with lights, smoke and mirrors. This photograph depicts an image that does not exist in real time. Bits and pieces of reality make up the whole, apparent but not actual. A lie, not the truth.Continue reading “March 08-B, 2023”

March 08-A, 2023

Why wouldn’t we make our best effort at living the best life possible under the circumstances? Why give it less than the best we have to give? In the service of the best we are capable of imagining? Why not care about the life we are living? And the people we are living with? WhyContinue reading “March 08-A, 2023”

March 07-B, 2023

Somebody needs to be the stabilizing influence in each situation as it arises. Why not you? Upon what does your own stability depend? What do you need to be dependably stable, grounded, centered, at peace within any situation that may arise, in a “Here we are. Now what?” kind of way? What do you turnContinue reading “March 07-B, 2023”

March 07-A, 2023

Emptiness, stillness and silence are the way to The Way, which makes them The Way. Which comes as bad news to the extroverts among us, which is why the Taoist sages and Zen masters came up with the slogan, “Practice, practice, practice.” The practice is simply being aware of, and present with, what is presentContinue reading “March 07-A, 2023”

March 06-B, 2023

Noise, complexity and drama run our life. Emptiness, stillness and silence wait their turn. We just want to be happy. That’s pretty much it. What we do with it from this point on tells the tale. Won’t somebody tell us how to be happy? All of the time? –0–

March 06-A, 2023

The intellect drowns in waters the soul swims in. That is the fundamental disconnect civilization requires. Thinking doesn’t know how to feel/sense/intuit/know but it thinks it does. Creates problems. Especially problems associated with The Way. The helmet in the light saber lessons in Star Wars will give you the idea. We wear the helmet inContinue reading “March 06-A, 2023”

March 05-B, 2023

I envision myself slipping quietly away when I transition back into the Light– there is nothing but the Light shining brightly through the night, which, of course, means there is no night. There is nothing but the Light. Which, of course, makes everything night, because there is no night by which to see the Light.Continue reading “March 05-B, 2023”

March 05-A, 2023

We do not think up what is meaningful. We become aware of what is meaningful. Meaningful is realization. Meaningful is spontaneously recognized and done. We wake up to what is meaningful and serve it with our life. We are drawn to it, attracted by it, know it when we see it, even though we haveContinue reading “March 05-A, 2023”

March 04-B, 2023

Something happens and we deal with it. How well we deal with it is a reflection of our balance and harmony, which is a reflection of our association with our original nature and our innate virtues/strong points/specialties, which is a reflection of our consciousness/awareness of, and our degree of comfort with, our place within theContinue reading “March 04-B, 2023”

March 04-A, 2023

I have been perfectly suited for most of the stuff I have done in my life. I did not belong subbing for a third grade class, and knew it when I agreed to do it– at 8 AM the day of. I did not belong in a scuba diving church camp trip with Sr. Highs,Continue reading “March 04-A, 2023”