Doing in the moment what is called for by the moment is the heroic task in every moment. Living attuned to the now and alert to what’s what and what’s happening and what needs to be done in response is exactly what is necessary to turn things around and have them begin to fall intoContinue reading “October 09-A, 2022”
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October 08-B, 2022
The right kind of protection is all we need, and we all need that. The right kind of protection restores us to ourselves, and enables us to be who we are, just as we are, as one thus come, like a baby from the womb. Jesus was born in a manger and died on aContinue reading “October 08-B, 2022”
October 08-A, 2022
We nurture, nourish, our connection with the way through routine returns to emptiness, stillness, and silence, and with regular visits to the natural world. Nature is just so, just as it is, with no pretensions or aspirations, and a reach that does not exceed its grasp. Our nature is that way as well. The BuddhaContinue reading “October 08-A, 2022”
October 07-B, 2022
Circumstances create, produce, generate their own outcomes, results, effects, consequences. Which, themselves, create, produce, generate new circumstances creating different outcomes, consequences… It rains and a river forms only where a river could form. “Mamma, who made the beautiful river?” “The rain, honey.” “Who made the rain?” “Circumstances and possibilities.” “Who made the circumstances and possibilities?”Continue reading “October 07-B, 2022”
October 07-A, 2022
With deep appreciation and gratitude to Leonard Cohen for his work in finding the way and leading those who could be led to discover it for themselves! Once there was a mysterious source– it’s called “the way,” it has no force, no way of making anything happen ever. So it waits for all to fallContinue reading “October 07-A, 2022”
October 06-B, 2022
Everything hangs by a thread and turns on a dime. We can’t take it more seriously than it deserves. Always the same questions, in every circumstance/situation as it arises: Now what? What next? Always the same response: Sit still, be empty and quiet listen, look, wait for realization, awareness, perception, direction, purpose to occur, thenContinue reading “October 06-B, 2022”
October 06-A, 2022
What keeps us going is the courage to take another step, the resolve to see it through, the curiosity to find out where the path will take us if walked with heart and devotion to the task of doing what needs to be done because it needs to be done, anyway, nevertheless, even so. ThatContinue reading “October 06-A, 2022”
October 05-C, 2022
Our highest order obligation is to take care of our heart/soul, by living from our heart/soul, and honoring our heart/soul in all that we do. Being true to ourselves is being true to our heart/soul. Knowing ourselves is knowing our heart/soul. We are not taught this anywhere along the way. The church tells us toContinue reading “October 05-C, 2022”
October 05-B, 2022
What are you famous for? Not, “What do you want to be famous for?” Not, “What do you wish you were famous for?” What are you famous for? What do people look for from you? What do they look to you for? What are you known for? What is your shtick? What do you likeContinue reading “October 05-B, 2022”
October 05-A, 2022
Everybody wants to be safe and secure at everybody else’s expense. Vulnerability is the bane of the species. We are vulnerable and cannot bear the idea. The Old Testament has a line, “We run from a bear, and slam the door shut behind us, thinking we are safe at last, and a spider bites us.”Continue reading “October 05-A, 2022”
October 04-B, 2022
Living between the extremes, between the contradictions, between the dichotomies, between the contraries, between the mutually exclusive polarities… takes all the fun out of being alive. And so, denial. In the form of diversion, distraction, dismissal, disregarding, denouncing, delaying, postponing, rejecting and refusing to consider anything we don’t want to think about. The entertaining pastimes–Continue reading “October 04-B, 2022”
October 04-A, 2022
Everything turns on how we perceive our life. No one teaches us about perception. About interpretation. About hermeneutics. About ascribing meaning. About seeing. About understanding what we look at… We stumble into some mode of explaining to ourselves what’s happening, making things up to suit ourselves, call that knowing how things are, and responding toContinue reading “October 04-A, 2022”
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