These two paragraphs are #131 and #132 in Zen Thoughts on my Published Works Blog on WordPress:
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November 26, 2025
Being and remaining mindfully open to the present moment and what is happening here, now–and what is called for in meeting the moment as the moment needs to be met–is an automatic, spontaneous, realization akin to enlightenment and awakening in each moment that comes along. Knowing what’s what here, now and what the situation isContinue reading “November 26, 2025”
November 25, 2025
The Woman on a Black Horse is my metaphor for my Intuition, the Psyche-Psychic source and center of my being. What’s yours? With this statement and this question, I am reforming religion as we know it and making it more personal and more reflective, meditative, mindful, vibrant and alive than the religion I am replacingContinue reading “November 25, 2025”
November 24, 2025
You know Jesus’ instructions to “Pray always”? He was talking about creating a regular, on-going, uninterrupted conscious presence with our Psyche. Psyche is that which has always been called “God,”–especially before theology, doctrine, heaven and hell, etc. Which is to say, before the Church of Rome invented theology, doctrine, heaven and hell, etc. in theContinue reading “November 24, 2025”
November 23, 2020
If you could be you for the rest of your life, what would you do? If I could be me for the rest of my life I would live for things like this: Today checking out at the grocery store, the young woman at the cash register (And with me that’s between 18 and 30)Continue reading “November 23, 2020”
November 22, 2025
Carl Jung would tell us that our role in life is not to be the Buddha, and it is not to be the Christ, but that it is to be simply who we are. Jung’s complete focus was what he called “Individuation,” being who we are to be. He talked about “”The Primary Mask,” whichContinue reading “November 22, 2025”
November 21, 2025
It is up to us to do what we can with what we have to work with. I say, “Take it to the silence, no, take it to the stillness beyond the silence. And wait for some compelling urgency to rise up as the mud settles and the water clears, and call you to enterContinue reading “November 21, 2025”
November 20, 2025
The power of perspective cannot be overstated. How we see what we look at makes all the difference. And how we see when we look at our seeing–at what we see and how we evaluate it, so that we evaluate our evaluations–is the most important place to examine our perspective regarding how we are seeingContinue reading “November 20, 2025”
November 19, 2025
Wanting, desiring, fearing, buying, spending, amassing, consuming, having to have, acquiring, striving, pushing, wanting… When does it stop? When do we sit quietly, take stock, see what we are doing? Know what’s what and what’s happening and what is called for in each situation as it arises and do that when, where and how itContinue reading “November 19, 2025”
November 18, 2025
When I threw out theology all those years ago, I had to replace it with something that could serve as the core ground of existence, the “rock solid foundation” of who we are and what we are about, the Source of Life and Being. Initially, I referred to the bedrock of all that is “ThatContinue reading “November 18, 2025”
November 17, 2025 – B
I have posted a work in progress on my WordPress Blog, “Jim Dollar’s Published Works,” with the title, “Zen Thoughts.” An internet search should bring it up. It will sound a lot like you have heard from me already.
November 17, 2025
We are on our own when it comes to living a life worth the effort, and the older I get, the greater the effort on all levels. The compromises and trade-offs make walking to the mail box more of a chore than it once was, and just sitting in this scene and those like itContinue reading “November 17, 2025”
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