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September 14-A, 2022

Enlightenment is a function of realization. Realization is a function of reflection. Reflection is not thinking but wandering/wondering/looking/listening without motive or attachment, with no interest in gain or advancement, success or achievement. Without any sense of engagement in the process or the outcome. Just wandering for the sake of wandering. Playing, we might say, withContinue reading “September 14-A, 2022”

September 13-C, 2022

We have to make it work. We have to know what we are working for, if it can be had, and if it meshes with, exhibits, expresses, incarnates, reveals our essential/original nature, who we are. Is our heart in it? Does our work say who we are? This is always where it comes apart. WeContinue reading “September 13-C, 2022”

September 13-B, 2022

Serenity, peace, equanimity, connection, affirmation, at-one with the flow of things, with the way of things, no striving to make something be what it is not, what it has no business being… At home in the natural world, with the natural way of things. Nature does that for us, gives that to us, invites usContinue reading “September 13-B, 2022”

September 13-A, 2022

Facts don’t change to suit our preferences, but denial never met a fact it couldn’t disappear like that (Snaps fingers). If denial doesn’t like something, denial disappears it on the spot. There never was a truth denial couldn’t deny and X-out in a wink. You could talk to Jesus about that. Denial is a superpowerContinue reading “September 13-A, 2022”

September, 2nd Week, 2022

Our conditions and circumstances fluctuate according to the times, which are always changing, so we have to be fluid and flexible in order to respond appropriately to each occasion as it arises. What is important changes with the times, and we have to change with them in order to maintain our balance and harmony, uponContinue reading “September, 2nd Week, 2022”

September 12-C, 2022

Happiness is a function of freedom. But. Freedom is not freedom to do whatever we want, but freedom to do what needs to be done, where, when, and how it needs to be done. Knowing and doing what needs to be done is the key to happiness, when it is done for the joy ofContinue reading “September 12-C, 2022”

September 12-B, 2022

The way to get what you want is to not want very much and to be happy with what you have. Unending wants conflict with one another, off-set one another, cancel each other out. We cannot have this that we want because it rules out that which we also want, and we set up anContinue reading “September 12-B, 2022”

September 12-A, 2022

Making the best of it means asking “How can I do better with what I have to work with and with what needs to be done?” We have to know what needs to be done, and we have to know what we have to work with. We can be wrong about what needs to beContinue reading “September 12-A, 2022”

September 11-D, 2022

Since we control neither life nor death, we should make the best of things as they are, and give ourselves fully to the time left for living. Being what the times call for and doing what is needed is a good way to live our life. What would we gain by not doing that? WhatContinue reading “September 11-D, 2022”

September 11-C, 2022

We cannot be in this moment here/now and be thinking about, engaged with, in, some other moment, past or future. To be here/now is to be here/now. Period. Empty of everything but what is happening here/now. How often are you ever there? For how long? How long can you be here/now? Before shifting over toContinue reading “September 11-C, 2022”

September 11-B, 2022

The freedom to do what needs to be done establishes individuals in the right to their own perceptions and convictions by making the individual the responsible party answering the question, “Who says so?” Who says what is right in each situation as it arises? “I DO!”, shouts everybody participating in the situation. And, there isContinue reading “September 11-B, 2022”

September 11-A, 2022

There are four classic texts of Taoism: The Lao-tzu (AKA The Tao Te Ching), The Chuang-tzu, The Wen-tzu, and the Lieh-tzu. These were all put together between 500 BCE and 400 CE. Somewhere within that period, the following was attributed to Lieh-tzu: “The sage Wen-tzu said, ‘Someone who knows how to withdraw when his workContinue reading “September 11-A, 2022”