Author Archives: jimwdollar

1) Rocks do it for me. Ground me.Center me.Restore my balance and harmony.Stabilize me.Orient me to the best wayto here, now.And, once I am here, now,there is the matter of what is called for–and doing that,when, where and how it needs to be done,puts us on a path to no telling where that may lead!WhatContinue reading “November 16, 2024”

Waiting for the inevitableis a great time for practicingemptying ourselves of everything,as empty as the space between breaths.We do that by trusting ourselvesto our original nature,our innate virtues–the things we do bestand enjoy doing most–and our intrinsic intuition.These are our super powersequipping us to face everythingthat comes our way.In their company,we are capable of doingContinue reading “November 15, 2024”

The end of Democracy is upon us.Everyone who voted for Trumpwill bear the stigma of their treasonthrough the endless night of the outer darknessfilled with weeping and gnashing of teethcarrying the rest of us there with themas witnesses and reminders,yet one with them in the communalAUM of grief and mourning,remorse and lamentationat the Wailing WallContinue reading “November 14, 2024”

Looking through my treasure-troveof photographs of natural places,I am awe-struck again at the numberof magical scenes in the worldthat are “transparent to transcendence,”enabling us to sense the presenceof more-than-words-can-say.And connect us with the meaning of lifeby being meaningful to us here, now,day in and day out.Sacred places are meaningful,though we cannot say what they mean,andContinue reading “November 13, 2024”

Jesus wasn’t a Christian.The Buddha wasn’t a Buddhist.Where did they get what they had?Right out of their own intuitionand imagination!They did not believe they were rightabout what they said.They KNEW they were right about what they said.The same goes for Lao Tzu, Confucius, Aristotle, Plato,and every other person who stands out from the massesby thinkingContinue reading “November 11, 2024”

I am every bit as good of a Christian as Jesus was,and every bit as good of a Buddhist as the Buddha was.I live to do Jesus as only I can do Jesus,and I live to do the Buddha as only I can do the Buddha.Whether they are impressed or not by my efforts doesn’tContinue reading “November 10, 2024”

I don’t believe in believing. I believe in knowing.If we only knew what we know–and knew only what we know–we would be just fine.As fine as the children Jesuswas talking about when he said,”Unless you turn and become as children,you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.”Children know what they know.And only what they know.GrowingContinue reading “November 09, 2024 – B”

I will be lost for a while, having to change my web browser and now finding my way around in the new one. Complexity disturbs the flow and disrupts life for as long as it takes to settle into knowing what we are doing, which comes in its own time, and there is no hurryingContinue reading “November 09, 2024”

1) The Japanese have a saying–wu-wei–meaning doing-without-doing,or “getting things done without trying/striving/pushing/shoving.We need a word or a phrase that means the same thingonly applied to caring.We need to care-without-caring.To give our best to what is called forin each situation,with nothing at all at stake in the outcome.We give everything with nothing to loseand nothing toContinue reading “November 08, 2024”

1) It is difficult enoughbeing who we are,doing what is ours to do,when, where and how it needs to be donewithin an environment that supportsand encourages us all along the way.Doing that work within an environmenthostile and resistant to our living like thatis to live where Jesus livedagainst forces starkly opposed toLiberty! Justice! Equality! Truth!atContinue reading “November 07, 2024”