Author Archives: jimwdollar

We disappear pain and suffering and Donald Trump by changing our mind about our relationship with all three. The way we look at things determines what we see when we look. Seeing differently changes everything we look at. We do not have to respond emotionally about anything in our environment. We ascribe meaning to everything,Continue reading “March 14, 2025 – B”

We draw our lines firmly but without rancor. There are people with us herewithout good faith,and they are doing terrible damage,as Rumi knew people were doing in his day.And we have no control over those people.About them, the best I can say is thatif they could do better, perhaps they would.Be that as it may,Continue reading “March 13, 2025”

If we aren’t doing what we know must be donebecause to fail to do so would be to betrayourselves and our deep sense of what is rightand essential to us being true to ourselvesand failing to live in filial devotionand liege loyalty to our own center,and our grounding sense of direction and purpose,we are offContinue reading “March 12, 2025”

So much needs to be changed for the better!It is overwhelming in a So What? Who Cares? Why Try?kind of way.The trick is to not care about our chances.To not care about the odds.To not care about any of the things telling us to not care.And to sit with nature–with the natural world–on a regularContinue reading “March 11, 2025”

I have realized that we cannot discern the difference between where we stop and our experience of ourselves, our life, the world around us starts. There is no objective vantage point from which we can gauge/determine the validity/truthfulness of any experience we have, or of any statement about the validity of any experience.Everything is ourContinue reading “March 10, 2025 – B”

You are the closest thing to Jesusthat a lot of people will ever get.You are also the closest thing to Buddhathat a lot of people will ever get.So throw out theology, sin, redemption,doctrine, dharma, dogma, creeds, prayers of confession,and related paraphernalia.It is all unnecessary, beside the point and in the way.All we need is theContinue reading “March 10, 2025”

The things we are moved to doare the most wonderful things about us.Children in a sandbox.Guided by their own sense of what now, lost in the process of one nowleading to anotherare my image of the best lifehas to offer,and if we aren’t giving ourselvesto what moves usfor the wonder of itand the enjoyment ofContinue reading “March 09, 2025 – B”

Edna St. Vincent Millay nailed it with her,”Life must go on, I forget just why,” line.It doesn’t matter why.We don’t have to feel like it,like doing anything.We just have to do it.When, where and how it needs to be done.Having the fire for it,the life for it,helps,but it isn’t necessary.”Fake it ’til you make it,”IsContinue reading “March 09, 2025”

My extended family,particularly on my mother’s side,was not a place you would careto spend much time.One day was like another,one conversation was an extension of all the others, continuing, on-going,unending repetition of yesterdayand the day before.”Original” and “Interesting” would not be termsused to describe anything that was going on.Their diet was the same year afterContinue reading “March 08, 2025 – B”

Human beings seem to generate conditions conduciveto their own anguishat a much higher rate than all other species combined.I have watched cows, gold finches and snails quite a bitand have never seen any of them do themselves (or each other, for the matter) in.History is a record of our making ourselves and one anothermiserable.Leading meContinue reading “March 08, 2025”

This is the best time of my life.I can meet the day with equanimity and do what needs to be done there without remorse or sorrow,fear or anger about the reality of the dangers we all face with Trump and Companyat the helm.This is what we get with stupidity, fear and greedvoting like they knowContinue reading “March 07, 2025”