We are here to figure out what we are here for and how to achieve it. We start with finding our original nature and our innate virtues, and then think of avenues we might explore for applying our gifts/daemon/shtick/knacks/interests/etc. in the service of what needs to be done, when, where and how it needs toContinue reading “July 11-A, 2022”
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July 10-C, 2022
We have to be right about what needs to be done, when, where and how, and do it in each situation as it arises all our life long, no matter what. And. There is no way we can be always right about it. So, we have to be alert to that reality, and make ourContinue reading “July 10-C, 2022”
July 10-B, 2022
10,000 things are in our way, necessitating our return to the emptiness, the stillness, the silence, waiting for the mud to settle and the water to clear, the noise to diminish the complexity to wain, in order to know what needs to be done, where, when and how, and do it, time after time, “withoutContinue reading “July 10-B, 2022”
July 10-A, 2022
The world needs its human population to be vitally alive. For that to be true of us, we have to be interested in what we are doing, and understand it to be necessary work, vital work, important in a substantive way to the welfare of ourselves and our neighbors. We have to be doing workContinue reading “July 10-A, 2022”
July 09-C, 2022
The frustrations of life need a lot of silence to be silenced. We need to sit quietly more often than we do, in more quiet than we are often allowed. Noise and bustle seem to be the orders of the day, every day. Because, I think, the other side of noise is recognition, realization, knowing,Continue reading “July 09-C, 2022”
July 09-B, 2022
We are always trying to find our way. Circumstances overwhelm us. The noise of the 10,000 things gets in our way. The dust of the world kicks up complexity and complication. Distractions abound. We wake up again in the Wasteland wondering what’s now, what’s next, where do we go from here… Always the answer isContinue reading “July 09-B, 2022”
July 09-A, 2022
The life we are living needs to evoke, enable, serve our original nature and the innate virtues that are ours from birth. However, this may be other than what we do to pay the bills evokes, enables, serves. In that case, we walk two paths at the same time, by keeping an eye on theContinue reading “July 09-A, 2022”
July 08-C, 2022
It’s tricky. We have to know what we are doing, and we have no idea of what we are doing, so we have to know that we do not know what we are doing, and focus on knowing what we know. We have to know what we know in each situation as it arises. Discounting,Continue reading “July 08-C, 2022”
July 08-B, 2022
“Without contrary is no progression,” said William Blake in The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. Our opposites, inconsistencies, contradictions, polarities define us, identify us, form and shape us, bring us forth full-born into the world of duality and denial. Where do you cancel yourself out? X-out yourself? Fail to be who you are by beingContinue reading “July 08-B, 2022”
July 08-A, 2022
What’s in it for God? What is God getting out of all this? Do you think God is having a good time? Just one Woopie Doo after another? Think God skips, whistles and dances everywhere all the time? Think anybody ever asks God how things are going? And listens to what God might have toContinue reading “July 08-A, 2022”
July 07-C, 2022
In the emptiness, stillness and silence, everything comes up for inspection. If we can hold it in our awareness as interested observers, without engaging with any of it, just watching, just seeing, just knowing, we can discover how our experience has impacted us by the frequency with which things appear to pass in review. andContinue reading “July 07-C, 2022”
July 07-B, 2022
The Wasteland is everywhere people are living inauthentic lives cut off from their original nature and the innate virtues that are theirs at birth. The Wasteland is everywhere. +++ The world could be redeemed/transformed “like that” (Snaps fingers) if people would simply be who they are/were at birth. Jesus said it: “Unless you turn andContinue reading “July 07-B, 2022”
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