The three experiencess traditionally, historically, classically, universally recognized as being “transparent to transcendence” are art, music and nature. Transparency to transcendence simply means that these experiences are easily flipped, like an optical illusion might be flipped, and serve as a doorway, a threshold, a portkey, flipping us from this world of normal, apparent, physical realityContinue reading “April 15-A, 2023”
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April 14-B, 2023
On a large enough scale, nothing we do matters, and on a small enough scale, everything we do matters. I recommend living small. Live on the level where our next breath counts for something! Live on the level where what we think determines, or, at least, strongly influences, what we do, and where what weContinue reading “April 14-B, 2023”
April 14-A, 2023
Wanting, desiring, having to have. Fearing, dreading, anxiety ridden. Keep us off balance, out of harmony over the full course of our life. Upon what do balance and harmony depend? What keeps us so far from that state of being? Wanting, desiring, having to have. Fearing, dreading, anxiety ridden. Where is the confidence? The certaintyContinue reading “April 14-A, 2023”
April 13-B, 2023
We live our way into the presence of That Which Has Always Been Called God. And no one can tell us exactly how to do that. Those who know can tell us generally how to do it. Joseph Campbell said, “Follow your bliss.” That is as much as can be said. Beyond that, “The TaoContinue reading “April 13-B, 2023”
April 13-A, 2023
If you want to keep up with my other probing of reality, I’m also to be found at: 04/13/2023 – A and: https://www.clickasnap.com/jim-dollar –0– The path to transcendence is called the Tao. It is that simple and that complex. Transcendence is the heart of the matter. “The Tao that can be said is not theContinue reading “April 13-A, 2023”
April 12-A, 2023
If it isn’t yours to do, don’t do it. Knowing what is yours to do and what isn’t is a function of awareness, attention and experience. We have to live long enough to know some things, like where we belong and where we have no business being. Like what’s what and what needs to beContinue reading “April 12-A, 2023”
April 11-A, 2023
We are being swept up in global fear produced by the extreme right who are always afraid of everything. For sixty years or so, the members of the extreme right have been filling the airways and media outlets with their fear of The Complete Loss Of Everything, and how Our Enemies Are Everywhere And AreContinue reading “April 11-A, 2023”
April 10-B, 2023
Who says so? I do about my business, you do about your business. I do about my life, you do about your life. If we don’t say so, who does? Who has authority over us? Who says so? I do about my business, my life. You do about your business, your life. We say whoContinue reading “April 10-B, 2023”
April 10-A, 2023
All bad religion is about theology and all theology comes down to opinion about hearsay. All good religion is grounded on experience, and comes down to what Harlan Howard said about country music: “Three cords and the truth.” We don’t have to believe anything in good religion. We don’t have to take anything on faith.Continue reading “April 10-A, 2023”
April 09-B, 2023
Our life brings us forth as we bring it forth. It is the merry dance of life with itself throughout the time left for living. We do not think our life into being, as in “What do you want to be when you grow up?” We live our life into being by doing what needsContinue reading “April 09-B, 2023”
April 09-A, 2023
Our life is bringing forth what needs to be brought forth into each situation as it arises. What form does your creativity take? How do you live to express who you are? What do you have to say that words cannot convey? What is your art? What do you serve by the way you live?Continue reading “April 09-A, 2023”
April 08-B, 2023
Our work over the time that remains for work consists of deepening/enlarging/expanding our relationship with ourselves, with our life and with the world around us. These three elements, the world, our life, our self form the matrix for our work/our growth/ our awakening/our awareness/our enlightenment/ our realization/our peace/our joy/etc. The first thing is to emptyContinue reading “April 08-B, 2023”
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