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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”

March 28-B, 2023

Here’s one for you: There are people who take it on faith that there is a god whom they call God, who gets pissed off like that (snaps fingers) and sends people to hell for, like, not honoring their father and mother, whatever “honoring” means, and other slights like “keeping the Sabbath holy.” (Now theContinue reading “March 28-B, 2023”

March 28-A, 2023

If you are against gun control or vote for people who are against gun control, you are complicit in the deaths of those killed in school shootings and in all other mass shootings, and are an accomplice in their deaths. You turn that around by being for gun control and by voting against those whoContinue reading “March 28-A, 2023”

March 27-B, 2023

Waiting on the next thing is a great place to recover from the past and store up for the future, just being still, quiet and empty of all thoughts and emotions. How long has it been? How still, quiet and empty can you be? For how long? What drives you to noise? Complexity? Drama? GetContinue reading “March 27-B, 2023”

March 27-A, 2023

Living with integrity, sincerity and spontaneity, transcends the contriving, willful, pursuit of the acquisition of wealth and power, and opens the way to following the flow of life energy through circumstances and situations as they arise. In so doing, we create a path that can only be recognized as a path in hindsight by thoseContinue reading “March 27-A, 2023”

March 26-B, 2023

I’ve been retired ten years, and hope I’m just beginning. Retirement is a place for refining, perfecting and applying the lessons of the aging process– it is all practice! In retirement, we continue the eternal practice of seeing what we look at and doing what needs to be done about it, when, where and howContinue reading “March 26-B, 2023”