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April 03-A, 2023

Thinking about getting/having/achieving/succeeding/etc. misses the point. The old Buddha and the old Taoists knew the point is seeing clearly what’s what and what needs to be done about it in each situation as it arises, no matter what. If we are going to collect something, let it be situations in which we have risen toContinue reading “April 03-A, 2023”

April 02-B, 2023

Our daily practice begins with clearing a space where we can relax and be present with what is present with us. If we can sit still and quiet, fine. If we cannot, fine. We can still ourseves and be quiet in any environment. All it takes is being aware of the environment and of ourContinue reading “April 02-B, 2023”

April 02-A, 2023

The four distractions are: Drugs/Sex/Alcohol/Money. The three disruptions are: Noise/Complexity/Drama. These combine to form the seven enemies of The Way. The Way is simply seeing/hearing/knowing/doing what needs to be done, when/where/how and being one with our original nature, our innate virtues/specialties and the flow of the energy of life in each situation as it arises.Continue reading “April 02-A, 2023”

April 01-B, 2023

I never stayed in the Num-Ti-Ja Lodge, but. I would like to have stayed there, and in all of the lodges in the Canadian Rockies, and to have discovered all of the tripod positions there, and to have taken all the photographs that could be taken there, through all of the seasons of all ofContinue reading “April 01-B, 2023”

April 01-A, 2023

We know when the cobber is done and when it is over-done and when it is not done. We know when we are on the beam and when we are off it. We know when our heart is in what we are doing, and when it is not. We have all it takes to findContinue reading “April 01-A, 2023”

April, 2023

Listening for what needs to be done includes listening for what needs us to do, and for what needs us to do it. We have a life to bring forth! We have an original nature and innate virtues/specialties we have to honor/express/exhibit/deepen/expand! We are not here just while away the hours, casting about for somethingContinue reading “April, 2023”

March 31-B, 2023

Each day means something different to every one of us, and something different to each of us throughout it. It is amazing how many different levels of awareness are possible to all of us every day. And how few of those levels we are attuned to. Aware of. Right seeing. Takes it all in. RightContinue reading “March 31-B, 2023”

March 31-A, 2023

There is nothing wrong with us that having a trustworthy sounding board wouldn’t fix. Clarity is everything. The Buddha’s Eight Fold Path can be reduced to two: Right Seeing and Right Doing. Clarity enables both of them. Of course, the Buddha’s word for clarity is Enlightenment. Enlightenment is clarity, is realization, understanding, comprehension, knowing… TheContinue reading “March 31-A, 2023”

March 30-B, 2023

The people who so proudly take it on faith that everything in the Bible is so, because it is proof of their celestial worthiness and the quality of their faith to do so, are quick to toss faith aside from there on, and speak not of what they believe to be so, but of whatContinue reading “March 30-B, 2023”

March 30-A, 2023

Trusting ourselves to our original nature and our innate virtues/specialties is the grounding principle of our existence. We are one with ourselves or, we are split off from ourselves, divided within, without guidance or direction, lost in the wasteland of discontent. The way out of the wilderness is the way of deep listening to ourselves–toContinue reading “March 30-A, 2023”

March 29-B, 2023

The art of hermeneutics is seeing/hearing what’s what, knowing/doing what needs to be done about it, being right about all of it and doing it with the gifts of our original nature and our innate virtues/specialties in each situation as it arises al our life long. Hermeneutics is reading/interpreting/understanding the situation as it unfolds beforeContinue reading “March 29-B, 2023”

March 29-A, 2023

If you take something, anything, on faith, you can’t say that’s the way it is– it is the way you believe it is. The distance between the way things are and the way we believe they are, and the way we wish they were, is the distance between here/now and the other side of theContinue reading “March 29-A, 2023”