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January 24-B, 2023

Curves are everyday occurrences through the outback of life, and we keep thinking we have to “Be There Now!” It’s “Be HERE Now!” We all might like to be somewhere else, but the Here/Now is all there is, and the perennial call is to do right by the time that is at hand. What isContinue reading “January 24-B, 2023”

January 24-A, 2023

Our circumstances are an ever-present guide through our days. They are always calling for something. Taking care of business is a full time job even when one is retired! And, it is good practice! The practice is paying attention and doing what needs to be done. The creative individual, paying close attention to the baselineContinue reading “January 24-A, 2023”

January 23-B, 2023

Throw away the theologies, the doctrines, the dogmas, the sutras, the dharma, etc. In their place recognize integrity, sincerity, spontaneity, emptiness, stillness, silence, balance, harmony, original nature, innate virtues/traits/characteristics, spirit/vitality/life. Remove noise/complexity/drama. See and do what needs to be done here and now when/where/how it needs to be done for no reason other than itContinue reading “January 23-B, 2023”

January 23-A, 2023

What practice do you follow to maintain/recover your balance and harmony? How do you sustain your focus? Your direction? Your connection to the central pole, the axis mundi, of the turning/heaving/crashing/chaotic world? What brings you back to who you are– to your original nature and the innate virtues/traits/characteristics that are yours from birth? An abidingContinue reading “January 23-A, 2023”

January 22-B, 2023

No plans, no agendas, no expectations, no opinions… The day has a drift and a rhythm of its own. Our place is to find what needs to be done and do it, when, where and how it needs to be done, situation by situation, and let that be that, because the next situation is onContinue reading “January 22-B, 2023”

January 22-A, 2023

Being true to our essential nature, living in the service of our innate virtues/traits/characteristics and doing what is needed, when, where, and how it is needed in each situation as it arises, has nothing to do with wanting, having, getting, acquiring, owning, amassing, seizing, striving, forcing, and living to have our way at the expenseContinue reading “January 22-A, 2023”

January 21-B, 2023

There is what we have, and there is what we need, and there is what we wish we had, and there is what we think we need. And here/there we are. How to be right about what we have and what we need is our life’s work. The truth is that we have what weContinue reading “January 21-B, 2023”

January 21-A, 2023

We have what it takes to rise to any occasion and do what needs to be done in each situation as it arises. The problem is that we don’t want to. We don’t want to is our only problem. If we only wanted to do whatever is asked of us, we would have no problems.Continue reading “January 21-A, 2023”

January 20-B, 2023

Coming to Jesus is coming to ourselves, is coming to. Jesus had to come to Jesus by coming to himself, by coming to. In the wilderness, in the lonely vigils at night, in Gethsemane, on Golgotha. We all have to follow the same path, in coming to terms with the discrepancy between how things areContinue reading “January 20-B, 2023”

January 20-A, 2023

Being clear about who we are in terms of our original nature and innate virtues/traits/characteristics, our specalities and our interests– and open to/aware of each situation as it arises, attuned to what is happening and what is being called for, positions us to be who we are and to offer what is needed out ofContinue reading “January 20-A, 2023”

January 19-B, 2023

Our practice consists of living in the service of our original nature and our innate virtues (traits, characteristics, the things we do best), in creating and maintaining an atmosphere, orientation, demeanor which exemplifies emptiness, stillness and silence, balance and harmony, sincerity, integrity, spontaneity, spirit, vitality, life, and avoids noise, complexity, drama, in doing what isContinue reading “January 19-B, 2023”

January 19-A, 2023

Everybody has in innate sense of what is good and what is not. Genghis Khan knew what was good. So did Adolf Hitler. Their idea of the good would likely not be our idea of the good, but they knew what was good, and so do we, we just disagree about how good each other’sContinue reading “January 19-A, 2023”