Author Archives: jimwdollar

01 Things are the way they are because it is in someone’s best interest that they stay this way. Who benefits from the way things are? Find those who do, and you know why things are as they are. What to do about it is “complicated,” as everyone who knows says. “Complicated” means keeping thingsContinue reading “September 11, 2021”

01 Things are in sync even when they are out of sync. Exploding stars are the kettle drums in the orchestra creating the music of the spheres. You might love Yellowstone now, but you would not enjoyed being around when it was formed. Much of the park is the caldera of a super volcano. TerribleContinue reading “September 10, 2021”

01 Adam’s and Eve’s sin was not some “want of conformity unto, or transgression of, a law of God,”… And we will pause here to allow me a side soliloquy on this phrase, “want of conformity into, or transgression of, a law of God,” saying that it came to my attention as the prescribed answerContinue reading “September 09, 2021”

01 The world does not care about doing what is right. That leaves it up to us, as individuals. The flow of the world is against the flow of Tao, which is about doing the right thing at the right time in the right place in the right way because it is right so toContinue reading “September 08, 2021”

01 The truth is who we are, and how well we exhibit that in each situation as it arises throughout our life. We are here to bring ourselves forth. To be who we are. Within the times and places of our living. All our life long. How well we are doing that is evidenced byContinue reading “September 07, 2021”

01 What it is going to take is sitting still, being quiet. We find in the silence all we need to meet the moment, moment by moment, in each situation as it arises, all our life long. Sitting in the silence– being able to sit in the silence– means emptying ourselves of all the noiseContinue reading “September 06, 2021”

01 Heinrich Zimmer said, “The best things cannot be said, the second best things are misunderstood, the third best things are the things we talk about.” That would be, news, weather, sports, gossip and drama. Lao Tzu exposed the emptiness of words with his, “Darkness within darkness–the gateway to mystery.” And, “The Tao that canContinue reading “September 03, 2021”

01 When it comes to discerning what needs to happen in the present moment, do not think about it! No Thinking Allowed! Reason, logic, morality and ethics tradition, doctrine, dogma, and what your mother said are useless in discerning/perceiving what is being called for and what needs to be done about it. Discernment and perceptionContinue reading “September 02, 2021”