Conflict and contradiction are at the heart of life. Yin/Yang, you know. We have to work it out, bearing in our own body the marks of the cross. Our cross to bear is the dichotomy of being alive. On the one hand this, on the other hand that– and that doesn’t take into account allContinue reading “November 11-B, 2022”
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November 11-A, 2022
The plan is to be aware of what is happening and what needs to be done in response. Awareness is the key to all that follows. Jon Kabat Zinn and his Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) YouTube videos are the best approach to a mindfulness practice that I know of. No plans, no agendas, noContinue reading “November 11-A, 2022”
November 10-C, 2022
Dylan Thomas’ poem, “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Light, Rage, Rage Against The Dying Of The Light,” misses the point that the light doesn’t die, and our dying may well be a transition back into the light that is our origin and our destination. One form of energy returning to another form ofContinue reading “November 10-C, 2022”
November 10-B, 2022
We are to be about creating an atmosphere conducive to life and well-being. Why is that hard? Hard to grasp? Hard to remember? Hard to do? Good/right is helpful to that end, bad/evil/wrong is harmful to that end. This is not difficult, why is it hard? What is good/right interferes with what is good/right forContinue reading “November 10-B, 2022”
November 10-A, 2022
The human spirit is like the wind that blows where it will– and it must be this way in order to catch up with, exhibit and reflect the wind at the heart of life, blowing where, boundless, without restraint or restrictions, alive and living to go and be and do, where and when and howContinue reading “November 10-A, 2022”
November 09-B, 2022
Determining what is necessary and what is not is an individual responsibility and a personal right. You cannot impose what is necessary for you onto me, or anyone else. Our necessities/urgencies are ours alone to know and to do. Our ability to size things up and to be correct in our appraisals of what constitutesContinue reading “November 09-B, 2022”
November 09-A, 2022
The situation has its own drift, flow, spin, direction, energy– and we aren’t likely to transform it into the way we want things to be. Neither Jesus, nor the Buddha, were able to change minds that were not open/ready to be changed. We can show up and give it our best, but if they areContinue reading “November 09-A, 2022”
November 08-B, 2022
Awareness never hurts. Seeing what we look at, and looking at everything, hearing what we listen to, and listening to what’s being said, particularly to what we are saying, is advantageous when the advantage we seek is the good of the situation as a whole. What is good for here/now? What does Truth, Justice, Equality,Continue reading “November 08-B, 2022”
November 08-A, 2022
The old saw stands the test of time: “Principles fly in the face of necessity!” If you don’t understand necessity, and talk, talk, talk about morality, and right and wrong, and good and bad, and should and ought, I have nothing to say to you that you can hear. What needs to be done inContinue reading “November 08-A, 2022”
November 07-B, 2022
The Farther Shore is never farther away than the fore-shortened distance from the canoes to the moraine. It is a matter of perspective, of “turning the light around,” of seeing with eyes that see things as they are: Oneness everywhere, right here, right now, for those with eyes to see. What do you see? LookContinue reading “November 07-B, 2022”
November 07-A, 2022
Water seeks its own level, as does every other thing. The Cosmos and all there is therein are all looking for balance, harmony, equilibrium, stability, homeostasis, oneness within and without, peace, tranquility, serenity, the Elysian Fields, the Farther Shore, the Pure Land, Nirvana, Heaven… The stable state of a gyroscope, not static, but fluid inContinue reading “November 07-A, 2022”
November, 2nd Week, 2022
Spirituality has nothing whatsoever to do with theology, and everything to do with truth– which means theology has nothing to do with truth. Bringing to the forefront Pilate’s rebuff of Jesus, “What is truth?” Jesus’ missed retort is simply, “The bed you slept in last night, the world you woke up to this morning.” TheContinue reading “November, 2nd Week, 2022”
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