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March 05, 2022

01 Enlightenment is knowing what’s what and what is called for, and when and where and how to respond to that call with the gifts, genius, daemon, shtick, creativity, imagination, virtues, etc. that came with us from the womb. Our original nature comes complete with all we need to do what is needed but. WeContinue reading “March 05, 2022”

March 04, 2022

01 Beulah Land is a fictional land flowing with milk and honey where everything is perfect, finally, at last, forever– commensurate with Nirvana, Heaven, The Farther Shore, The Happy Hunting Ground, Elysian Fields, and every religion’s idea of where we are going when we die. Where we are going when we die is fading backContinue reading “March 04, 2022”

March 03, 2022

01 There is no reason for things being as they are other than the things that happened that led to things being as they are. Or, to put this another way: What is the greater miracle– that everything has been carefully arranged to be exactly as it is here and now by some Master PlannerContinue reading “March 03, 2022”

March 02, 2022

01 Making our peace with the way things are seems to be the perennial task of our existence. It comes down to comforting ourselves about the circumstances of our life by telling ourselves whatever works to keep us going. We can’t make sense of it. Contradiction and paradox– yin and yang– and the mystery atContinue reading “March 02, 2022”

March 01, 2022

01 A gyroscope lives from its center. A thermostat regulates the temperature. A human balances the contradictions at work in their life, maintaining harmony, sustaining the flow. Equanimity. Homeostasis. Equilibrium. Stabilize the forces at work in the moment, and provide an environment that is conducive to life and the true good of all concerned. WeContinue reading “March 01, 2022”

March, 2022

This is a page holder for the pages that will be published during the month of March, 2022. We have rituals throughout each day that establish a particular sequential arrangement of acts and mechanisms to order and structure our time. There are rituals and instruments that we use to transition from sleeping to dressing toContinue reading “March, 2022”

February 28, 2022

01 There is the authentic and the inauthentic, the genuine and the sham, the fraudulent, the lie. There is our original nature, the face that was ours before we were born, and there is the shoe that does not fit, the life we are told to live, the person the culture requires us to be.Continue reading “February 28, 2022”

February 27, 2022

01 There are so many ways of missing the point. Of missing the way. Of not getting it. And then, there is President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the people of Ukraine. If they can get it right, why can’t everybody? –0– 02 It is raining and 34 degrees outside. I am inside with a fire andContinue reading “February 27, 2022”

February 26, 2022

01 “There is nothing to it but to do it” (Maya Angelou). And that’s the hardest thing to do. Nothing. Try to do nothing. Try being empty in the right kind of way. How long can you sit in the stillness and the silence? How long can you wait? How long before “This isn’t gettingContinue reading “February 26, 2022”

February 25, 2022

01 Where is the incentive to live with all our heart in what we are doing? To live like a dog wags its tail? Like a child with an ice cream cone gets to work? What is keeping us from living that way? Giving our best moment-to-moment? Not holding anything back because what we areContinue reading “February 25, 2022”

February 24, 2022

01 We go without weapons into the deed that must be done in each situation as it arises. As vulnerable as a baby in a manger, or a man on a cross. Looking only for what we need to do what needs us to do it. That’s all Aristotle had, and Jesus, and Gandhi, andContinue reading “February 24, 2022”

February 23, 2022

01 Our life elicits our original nature if we let it. We interfere with the natural process at work in the unfolding of ourselves within the life we are living by having desires that are at cross purposes with the flow of life and being in accord with the Tao, the Way of Life andContinue reading “February 23, 2022”