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Reconciling ourselves to the world/life/the way things are is our life-long work. It is the Sisyphean Task, and the core of the Hero’s Journey. We never complete it, we always continue it. Thinking, “Now we have done it at last,” merely sets us up for “Here it comes again!” All the stages of life areContinue reading “October 10-A, 2022”

Nature is just what it is. Everything in the natural world is making out as best it can without rules and laws and conventions. Civilization pretends to be civil. We can trust nature to be nature, but we cannot trust civilization to be civil. Including the churches, the courts and the justice system. And whoContinue reading “October, 2nd Week, 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”

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”