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March 16, 2022

01 We only have the moment to work with. This moment, here and now. What needs to be done here, now? Do it the way it needs to be done, with nothing but our original natures and the virtues that came with us from the womb to work with. Doing that, we make miracles happenContinue reading “March 16, 2022”

March 15, 2022

01 When we live transparent to ourselves, aligned with our original nature, seeing what’s what, hearing what is called for in each situation as it arises, and doing what needs to be done about it with the gifts and virtues (The things we are good at) that come with us from the womb, we areContinue reading “March 15, 2022”

March 14, 2022

01 We think it is one way and it is another. We think it is about this and it is about that. We think it is one thing and it is something else. We think we know what we are doing, and we do not have a clue. We sort it out by eliminating theContinue reading “March 14, 2022”

March 13, 2022

01 Be right about what needs to be done and do it. In each situation as it arises. Being right about what needs to be done is a simple matter of living in right relationship with the right kind of emptiness, stillness and silence, and the right kind of relationship with yourself and your circumstances.Continue reading “March 13, 2022”

March 12, 2022

01 No one can do me better than I can. Jesus couldn’t do me better than I can. The same things go for you. You know all the people who think they could do you better than you are doing you? And try to all the time? Giving you tips and pointers, making suggestions, offeringContinue reading “March 12, 2022”

March 11, 2022

01 The Gateless Gate is to be found in every landscape, in all situations. It only takes remembering this is so for it to be so, standing before us to turn the light around, bringing perspective and perception to bear on this here and now, transporting us, shifting us, from the rational, physical world ofContinue reading “March 11, 2022”

March 10, 2022

01 Know what you love. Do what you love. If you can’t pay the bills doing what you love, do what it takes to pay the bills, AND do what you love. If your heart isn’t in what you are doing, start doing things you can do with all your heart. Heart leads the way.Continue reading “March 10, 2022”

The Gateless Gate

01 Q: What is more useless than a gate to a butterfly? A: An entire book of “gates”! “The Gateless Gate” (Like “The Blue Cliff Record” before it”) is a collection of Zen (Zen is what happened when Buddhism met Taoism in China) Koans, or conundrums, like, “What is the sound of one hand clapping?”,Continue reading “The Gateless Gate”

March 09, 2022

01 Realization springs to mind, seemingly out of nowhere, but it is cultivated through awareness and relaxed contemplation, mulling things over, sitting still and taking a walkabout. Or actually walking about in the same stillness that sitting can produce. Realization dawns on us as we hold contradictory thoughts in mind, without being troubled by opposites–polarities–Continue reading “March 09, 2022”

March 08, 2022

01 We aren’t here to get anything out of it, to have something to show for it. We are here to bring the best we have to offer to bear on the context and circumstances of our life. What we can enjoy while doing it is entirely up to us. And there is a lotContinue reading “March 08, 2022”

The Jesus Sutras

In 635 of the Common Era, a Christian mission to China, probably from the church in Persia, arrived in Chang-an (Now Xian), the capital of the Tang Dynasty. This was likely a mission of the Church of the East, whose beginnings can be traced back to Thomas called “The Twin, one of the original 12Continue reading “The Jesus Sutras”

March 07, 2022

01 Some problems have no solutions. There is no happily ever after as a steady state of being. There are no steady states of being. Which means sadness and sorrow are not everlasting. It is all coming and going, ebb and flow, rise and fall… And we learn to let come what’s coming and letContinue reading “March 07, 2022”