Author Archives: jimwdollar

01 Wu Wei is a Taoist term. For action that is a spontaneous response to the situation as it arises– a response that is not thought into being, but lived into being at the appointed time and place of its occurring. It is doing the right thing at the right time in the right placeContinue reading “August 29, 2021”

01 Putting ourselves in accord with the way things are, and with the way things need to be– because that is the way they truly need to be, and has nothing whatsoever to do with how we want them to be– is the work of our life. We do this through emptiness and silence. EmptyingContinue reading “August 28, 2021”

01 Show of hands! Raise your hand if you hate your job and your life. Look to see if your hand is up. If it isn’t, you are in denial, and possibly high. The world is in the state it is in because people hate their job and their life. And are taking it outContinue reading “August 27, 2021”

01 Find the flow of your life, sense the movement– or the blockage– and become curious about the state of flow here and now. Courage assists flow, fear resists it. Anger throttles it. Compassion creates options and possibilities. Receiving the moment with compassion opens us to the possibilities of flow inherent in each situation asContinue reading “August 26, 2021”

01 Begin paying attention to your situations, noticing when one goes over into another. Our situations carry us with them, becoming our life, so that our life is simply a string of situations, one going over into the next, from birth to death. Each situation has its own movement, its own pace and timing, withContinue reading “August 25, 2021”

01 Leverage in any situation is used to lever the good of the situation into place. Every situation needs something. To step into each situation endeavoring to serve our advantage, our good, our gain, our benefit, our desire is to do grave harm not only to that situation but also to all situations which flowContinue reading “August 24, 2021”

01 When the destabilizing forces roll through your world, how do you re-stabilize? What do you do to restore balance and harmony? I wait to find the next thing that needs to be done and do it. And then find the next thing that needs to be done and do it. And on and onContinue reading “August 23, 2021”

01 I recommend that you make a mandala your personal symbol/reminder/guide for achieving and maintaining balance and harmony– which imply and include sincerity, integrity, spirit, energy and vitality. You are familiar, surely, with the Myers-Briggs Personality Type Inventory. It is a quick reference tool for the opposites within us that need to be consciously andContinue reading “August 22, 2021”

01 We can determine the degree of our knowledge of God by the quality of our balance and harmony, sincerity and integrity, spirit, energy and vitality. These are the Seven Markers of Godliness. The higher their quality within us, the deeper our knowledge of, affinity for, God– and the lower their quality within us, theContinue reading “August 21, 2021”

01 Our life is built around and flows from the things the express, exhibit, reveal, disclose our original nature and declare who we are. “What I do is me,” said Gerad Manley Hopkins, speaking for all of us, “for that I came.” We are to live to see to it that this is so inContinue reading “August 20, 2021”

01 When The Way is not trusted, duty comes to the fore. Dharma tells us how to act. Should’s Must’s Ought’s replace our natural, intuitive, instinctive sense of what is called for moment-to-moment in each situation as it arises. We begin to live by the book instead of living from the heart. The way ofContinue reading “August 19, 2021”

01 In every now we have no idea of what is next. In trying to arrange what’s next, we step out of the flow of the now, which is the flow of time (kairos) and place (dharma), upset the natural expression of grace, and operate as a rogue predator in the here and now ofContinue reading “August 18, 2021”