02 Living from our own center with nothing at stake in the outcome is like singing in the shower, or dancing in the rain. It is a spontaneous, impromptu, improvisational response to our situation as it arises and opens before us, calling us to dance with life in becoming one with the moment and theContinue reading “October 04, 2020”
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October 03, 2020
03 Our life forms itself around us, reflecting our choices and decisions exhibiting our preferences and inclinations, expressing our degree of creativity and courage… We are content seeking shape and form. Our life becomes us so. And we blame our circumstances. “If we had had more of this and less of that!” If this! IfContinue reading “October 03, 2020”
October 02, 2020
01 We hide ourselves and hide from ourselves. We speak in code about ourselves and to ourselves. Dismissing. Disregarding. Discounting. Denying. Ignoring. What is important in favor of what is trivial and essentially non-essential. We only have to look a our life to know it is so. Our life conceals and reveals us. Our choicesContinue reading “October 02, 2020”
October 01, 2020
03 The Way doesn’t get any clearer than this: Do your thing with nothing at stake in the outcome. In each situation as it arises. That is all there is to it. Or ever has been. –0– 02 We create the future by the way we respond to our present. Each present moment– every here-and-now–Continue reading “October 01, 2020”
October 2020
This is Home to all pages written in October of 2020. Hovering your pointer over a month listed in the header will drop down the daily posts for the month. Thanks for visiting. Stay safe and be well!
September 30, 2020
02 Safety, security, stability are the three foundational necessities for life as we would like to live it. They are as much an internal orientation as they are an external reality. Someone who has been physically/sexually/emotionally abused, and place them in a safe/secure/stable environment, and it will take them forever to feel safe/secure/stable. Take someoneContinue reading “September 30, 2020”
September 29, 2020
04 Consistency, reliability, dependability… Can we maintain our connection with the center? Can we remain on the path? Can we retain our focus amid the Clashing Rocks on the Heaving Waves of the Wine Dark Sea? It is one thing to grasp the truth of what is needed in the silence of circumstances that areContinue reading “September 29, 2020”
September 28, 2020
04 I would like to sit down one-on-one with everybody, and hear what they had to say. I think that is all anybody needs. Someone to hear what they have to say. Everybody wants to tell people what they need to hear. Nobody wants to hear what people have to say. I would like toContinue reading “September 28, 2020”
September 27, 2020
02 Jon Kabat-Zinn (And if you haven’t watched his YouTube Videos on Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction– the shortest ones first– what exactly are you waiting for?) said that mindfulness and meditation are like riding a bicycle. When you are learning to ride a bicycle, you think about riding the bicycle. When you learn to rideContinue reading “September 27, 2020”
September 26, 2020
01 We have to believe in the things that keep us going. That is the true test of our faith. Can it–does it–will it–keep us going? We go in the service of what we believe in. People who have lost their faith go mostly to bars and opioids. The surest way to not lose ourContinue reading “September 26, 2020”
September 25, 2020
02 Maintaining our focus, remaining centered, balanced, in harmonious accord with the Tao is all there is to it. Only fear, desire and duty stand in our way. And the dust of the world. And the 10,000 things. It is amazing that we can even consider focus, centering, balance and harmony. And it is notContinue reading “September 25, 2020”
September 24, 2020
02 Ambition, incentive, aspiration are all over-hyped. Who knows what to want? Who wants what should be wanted? Who can be forced to want what they ought to want? So, you spend your life in the service of things that don’t matter, thinking they matter, working for prestige, status and stature, dry as desert dustContinue reading “September 24, 2020”
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