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July 26-C, 2022

An unwavering conviction about how things ought to be is the worst thing in the world. No! In the universe! “All things considered” shifts how things ought to be around quite a bit, and it works out that how things ought to be depends upon the configuration of variables in the here/now of the assessment,Continue reading “July 26-C, 2022”

July 26-B, 2022

If your life were your own to live, how would it be different from the way it is now? What can you do now, to begin moving in that direction? What symbolic act can you make in your life as a gesture declaring your intention to live into living your life as you know itContinue reading “July 26-B, 2022”

July 26-A, 2022

There is what we want to do, and there is what needs us to do it whether we want to or not. How do we pare our life out between what we want to do and what needs to be done? How do we decide when to do what? I never go anywhere without myContinue reading “July 26-A, 2022”

July 25-C, 2022

Our choices determine, or strongly influence, our choices. In any situation, we are where we are by virtue of the choice we made to lead to this point. We can’t keep making the same choices and have a different life. What are the themes running through our choosing? In what ways are we predictable? InContinue reading “July 25-C, 2022”

July 25-B, 2022

The Eternal Moment is any moment that connects us with eternity, and we know “This is IT!” in terms of THIS being the microcosm of the macrocosm. The Eternal Now is the representative encounter with the experience of wonder characteristic of eternity. Where the transcendent and the imminent are one, and the world is seenContinue reading “July 25-B, 2022”

July 25-A, 2022

The basic life strategy is not to avoid the pitfalls. It is to see what we are doing and what needs to be done in each situation as it arises, and live to be what the situation needs us to be with sincerity and integrity, in the service of our original nature and the innateContinue reading “July 25-A, 2022”

July 24-C, 2022

The seasons come and go. Our place is to let come what’s coming and to let go what’s going, without attachment or affiliation. Without preference or partnership. No expectation. No agenda. No plans. No opinion. Or, better, perhaps, to love each one for what it is, as one might love their children, without thinking thatContinue reading “July 24-C, 2022”

July 24-B, 2022

“Light is dying to the west…” “An end to another day…” “Leads us all to wonder, how many are left…” Are all so melancholy, gloomy, depressing, sad, typical of our predictable way of assessing our situation. Sunset here is sunrise there. Going is always coming. The end of the rainbow fails to imagine the continuationContinue reading “July 24-B, 2022”

July 24-A, 2022

If you want to feel better on every level stop what you are doing 10 times a day and do nothing but breathe for 5 minutes, or, you could stop 5 times a day and breathe for 10 minutes. Just breathe, and be conscious of your breathing. And pause for a count of 5 betweenContinue reading “July 24-A, 2022”

July 23-C, 2022

Everybody wants to be happy. What does wanting know? Without wanting, everybody would be happy like that (Snaps fingers). Wanting is the source of our problems. Suffering is a perspective. It is the result of the way we see things. Sift the perspective, and POOF! goes the problem. The art of perspective shifting is theContinue reading “July 23-C, 2022”

July 23-B, 2022

Our primary obligation is to our life. To live it as fully as possible, as well as possible, as long as possible, toward the end of expressing, exhibiting, knowing ourselves as completely as possible. We are here to discover and incarnate who we are in the here/now of our living. Our life is the mediumContinue reading “July 23-B, 2022”

July 23-A, 2022

Zen is what happened when Buddhism met Taoism, and the more accurate term would be “Zen-Taoism,” not “Zen-Buddhism,” because Zen is more Taoist than Buddhist. If you are interested, check out “The Tao of Zen” by Ray Grigg, hardback or Kindle at Amazon. With both Taoism and Zen you get the doctrine: “It doesn’t matterContinue reading “July 23-A, 2022”