We bring justice, compassion, grace, mercy, peace, and all the soft values to life in the Cosmos–in as much as we allow ourselves to be alive to one another and all living things. It is the gift of life to care about the living. And it is my bet that Neanderthal had an over-abundance ofContinue reading “November 29, 2025”
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November 28, 2025
How many worlds are there in this world? How many worlds do all living things live in over the span of their lifetimes? It is no wonder that we have such a difficult time sharing space in this world that unites us all without actually uniting us at all. No? Making, in my mind, itContinue reading “November 28, 2025”
November 27, 2025
What do you know that no one told you, and you do not know how you know? How much do you know that no one told you and you don’t know how you know? Sit with that secret knowledge. Take it into the emptiness, stillness, silence with you, and wait there “for the mud toContinue reading “November 27, 2025”
November 26 – B, 2025
These two paragraphs are #131 and #132 in Zen Thoughts on my Published Works Blog on WordPress:
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”
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