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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”

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”