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December 01, 2021

01 We were born wanting, but not knowing what to want, and rarely wanting what we should want, but always, always, having to have whatever we want, everything we want, NOW! Particularly our way. We always, always, want our way NOW! What does wanting know? It doesn’t know how to stop wanting? It just knowsContinue reading “December 01, 2021”

December 2021

This is the page holder for the month of December, 2021. May you find something here to light your path and smooth your way! The days that are lived unconsciously, routinely, regularly, have a sense of sameness about them that makes wherever we are a prison of our own making, where one day is indistinguishableContinue reading “December 2021”

November 30, 2021

01 Reduce noise! Diminish complexity! Simplify! Simplify! Simplify! The recipe for balance and harmony. Noise, complexity, confusion, and chaos are the recipe for frantically swimming amid the clashing rocks in the heaving waves of the wine-dark sea. And, we bring it all on ourselves. By refusing to say “NO!” when it needs to be said,Continue reading “November 30, 2021”

November 29, 2021

01 Sit with these words and phrases and mine them for their gold as a regular and on-going practice. Treat them as guides to the way, and companions along the path. Tend your relationship with them with filial devotion, allegiance, and loyalty. Emptiness, stillness and silence. Balance and harmony. Sincerity, integrity and self-transparency. Spirit, energy,Continue reading “November 29, 2021”

November 28, 2021

01 One of our superpowers is bearing the legitimate pain of being alive. When we carry the pain that is ours to bear, we know that we are one with all others in the experience of the pain of life. That knowledge is the source of our identification with one another and all human beings–Continue reading “November 28, 2021”

November 27, 2021

01 Live in the service of your original nature, bringing your gifts/genius/daemon/shtick/virtues to life within the circumstances of your living in each situation as it arises, in doing what needs to be done, where it needs to be done, when it needs to be done, how it needs to be done, because it needs toContinue reading “November 27, 2021”

November 26, 2021

01 Changing our mind about what is important changes everything. Our perspective, point of view, way of assessing reality, is the swing point between ways of being and living. And, is what determines the things we do and the things we leave undone. Our life depends upon what we see when we look, and theContinue reading “November 26, 2021”

November 25, 2021

01 The wonder of life is always waiting to be realized, embraced, acknowledged, celebrated, relished, revered, cherished, adored… Not ignored. Everything hinges on the perspective necessary to see into the heart of things, and know things as they are. We talk to much. We see too little. And miss the blessing and grace of theContinue reading “November 25, 2021”

November 24, 2021

01 We all have 24 hours each day. What we do with them tells the tale. The tale we are here to tell by the way we live our life. That is what our life is for: To be lived in the way that tells our tale. The tale we are here to tell. HowContinue reading “November 24, 2021”

November 23, 2021

01 There is a Zen saying, “If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him!” When Lao Tzu heard it said, he laughed and replied, “I meet the Buddha in every person I meet on the road! I bow in recognition and pass on by! That is the way the Buddha meets the Buddha!”Continue reading “November 23, 2021”

November 22, 2021

01 We find the way to The Way, and remain on it through the practice of the right kind of emptiness, stillness and silence. The practice of the right kind of emptiness, stillness and silence is not only the way to The Way, it is also the solution to all of our problems today, everyday.Continue reading “November 22, 2021”

November 21, 2021

01 There is a fine line between caring enough about the right things and caring too much about everything. Jesus and the Buddha advised knowing what is important and caring about that and letting the rest of it go. “Why worry about tomorrow?” they asked, “Or about anything out of your control?” they implied, “LetContinue reading “November 21, 2021”