Author Archives: jimwdollar

Swamp grass has nothing to do with Christmas Eve, and Christmas Eve has nothing to do with the war in Ukraine, or with why we all can’t just get along. Or why we all can’t be billionaires. Not that we could get along if we were. What’s the key to getting along? Growing up mayContinue reading “December 24, 2025”

We experience That Which Has Always Been Called God all of the time without acknowledging what’s what, what’s happening, what’s going on. It’s time to Tune In, Turn On, Wake Up And Get With the Program in an “Oh, THERE You Are, Peter” kind of way. We are looking for experiences with flow, synchronicity, coincidence,Continue reading “December 23, 2025”

This is #22 of “200 More Zen Thoughts From Jim Dollar #1” on my WordPress Blog: We are capable of realizing/recognizing the Buddha in the Buddha and the Christ in the Christ. If we can realize/recognize it in them we can realize/recognize it in ourselves if we would but get out of our way andContinue reading “December 21 – B, 2025”

In two weeks I will step into my 82nd year, with no health problems to speak of. I hope I have twenty more years with no health problems to speak of. With Psyche/Tao to work on, I will have plenty to be interested in, so maintaining a healthy body/mind relationship over a twenty year periodContinue reading “December 21, 2025”

Intuition takes the lead in knowing what’s what and what’s called for in each situation as it arises, but. Ambition and desire trump–the way Trump trumps the good everywhere he goes–balance, harmony and the flow of life and being in the unfolding of life as it could be, leaving us with the ruins of whatContinue reading “December 20, 2025”

The natural world fluctuates around a “happy medium,” or “a bell-shaped curve” where daily things are mostly what they “always have been and what they will be.” Carl Jung said, “We are who we always have been and who we will be.” We belong to the natural world and are as it is, preferring stability,Continue reading “December 19, 2025”

Doing what is called for in each situation as it arises, when, where and how it is called for, is all the is asked of us, and constitutes the flow of life and being. It is the way tennis players play the game, the way dancers dance and the way singers sing, hitting the rightContinue reading “December 18, 2025”

Let the sentinels who keep watchtake no rest nor allow him to restuntil he has remembered his promisesand returns to make us the boast of the earth! Misplaced allegiances lead to a lot of grim realizations, no?Leading to Now what? Where do we go from here?The Silence is always with us.We could go there andContinue reading “December 17, 2025”