Author Archives: jimwdollar

Bad religion is based on opinion and hearsay, good religion is grounded on experience– specifically, on experience, regular and ongoing, with the numinous, the transcendent, the ineffable, the undeniable, the Really Real… beyond all thought, incapable of being explained, defined, said or told, only experienced, again and again, as wonder, radiance, sublime, joy, amazement, delight,Continue reading “April 08-A, 2023”

We are a squirming tangle of presumptions, assumptions, inferences, prejudices, biases, preferences, likes, dislikes, loves, hates, etc., and our seeing/hearing/knowing/doing/being are controlled– or strongly influenced– by these invisible/unconscious/natural/automatic responses to our environment. We do not know why we feel the way we do, and I feel that most of us do not know what weContinue reading “April 06-A, 2023”

Our circumstances call us forth in response to what is being asked for there. Our relationship to our circumstances ranks in degree of importance equal to our relationship with ourselves and to our relationships with other people. We would do well to do an internal evaluation of our relationships with these three aspects of ourContinue reading “April 04-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”