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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”

January 18-C, 2023

We could talk about “God’s will for our life,” and we could talk about “Our life’s will for itself.” And we could wonder, “Where does the line lie between That Which Has Always Been Called ‘God,’ and us?” And I would say, “There is no line!” I would also add, “We are as close toContinue reading “January 18-C, 2023”

January 18-B, 2023

Anybody who is having a time of it is failing to manage their conflicts/contradictions, and it has gotten the best of them. Happens all of the time. Everywhere. You’d think we would do a better job of instructing people in the way of conflict/contradiction management. We send them to jail or therapy, and go rightContinue reading “January 18-B, 2023”

January 18-A, 2023

What’s your specialty? The things you do best and enjoy most. My specialty is looking out windows. And articulating what’s what. I earned a living with the articulating part, but that doesn’t happen without the windows part, so, there is a sense in which I earned a living with that, too. Puts me in aContinue reading “January 18-A, 2023”

January 17-D, 2023

This is the third way of representing/presenting the same scene (Refer to the two previous images in this series). Which way is it really? None of the three! The “real scene” was entirely different, related only by being in the same general area at the time I was there. My point is the multiplicity ofContinue reading “January 17-D, 2023”

January 17-C, 2023

Sit with anything long enough and you will see it differently over time. Which way is it? We are bitten shortly after birth by the One Way Only Way Of Being Bug. We see everything as this or that. Up or down. Right or wrong. Good or bad/evil… Compare the most recent two posted images,Continue reading “January 17-C, 2023”

January 17-B, 2023

We live best when we live consciously learning how to balance our contradictions, polarities, opposite tendencies pulling us in different directions. On the one hand this, and on the other hand that. It is like that with all of us all of the time. The place of conscious awareness is to make the peace andContinue reading “January 17-B, 2023”

January 17-A, 2023

We have a goal: To live aligned with ourselves, in sync with our heart, our nature and the virtues that are unique (As in, “Among the virtues of this old mare, are her gentle way with children, and her smooth gait when carrying them) to us– as unique as our fingerprints and iris cones– withContinue reading “January 17-A, 2023”

January 16-B, 2023

Responding to the occasion in ways appropriate to the occasion opens the way to being at one with the moment, in sync with the time and place of our living, aligned with the rhythm and flow of life here/now, doing what is called for, where, when and how it is called for– the essence ofContinue reading “January 16-B, 2023”