Take refuge in the silence, in the stillness, in the emptiness, just breathing, just waiting, for restoration, recovery, reassurance, realization, revitalization, renewal, direction, courage, confidence, balance, harmony, stability, security, determination, and the will to go on. The silence, etc., is good for all of this and more. A day without silence is like a dayContinue reading “October 12-A, 2022”
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October 11-B, 2022
We have to have a regimen, a routine, an order of the day, that we follow regularly, religiously, with fealty, liege loyalty and filial devotion. Consisting of the right kind of emptiness, stillness and silence. Mindful awareness. Integrity, sincerity and spontaneity. Balance and harmony. Spirit, energy and vitality. All of which connect us at theContinue reading “October 11-B, 2022”
October 11-A, 2022
Clarity and courage are all it takes. We can go anywhere, do anything, in the company of clarity and courage. Clarity reveals/discloses what’s what and what needs to be done about it, in response to it, and courage does it. That’s all there is to it. In each situation as it arises. All our lifeContinue reading “October 11-A, 2022”
October 10-B, 2022
There are circumstances producing consequences, and consequences creating circumstances, generating forces and momentum, opportunities and possibilities, with one thing following another, spinning off from another, becoming altogether different from anything that has ever been because it could. Anything that can happen will happen over time. And does happen. And has happened. You can think ofContinue reading “October 10-B, 2022”
October 10-A, 2022
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”
October, 2nd Week, 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”
October 09-B, 2022
There is nothing but circumstances and consequences producing, developing, creating, generating circumstances and consequences as far as the eye can see, or the mind imagine. Over time, patterns form, repeat, stabilize, appear to be permanent. Nothing is permanent but the process. Consciousness is imagination, realization, recognition, seeing patterns, making connections, shaping experience, being shaped byContinue reading “October 09-B, 2022”
October 09-A, 2022
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”
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”
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