Author Archives: jimwdollar

People kill themselves and other people because they don’t like the way things are going. Why don’t they just change their mind about what is important? Changing our mind about what is important is the solution to all of our problems today. Every day. The right kind of meditation practice is about changing our mindContinue reading “November 11, 2023 – A”

The joy for me is found walking/driving through the world, eating in the world, being here/now in the quiet of early morning, but not so much in the grind of heavy traffic. I would enjoy a chat with Henry David Thoreau and Black Elk and Chief Seattle… and being close to water… Away from crowdsContinue reading “November 10, 2023 – A”

Jesus is the archetypal human being, doing the right thing, at the right time in the right place and way, time after time. So was Betty White, Helen Wolfe, Iris Dement, Dolly Parton and thousands more through the ages. And we all have shown flashes and sparks of Jesus here and there over the courseContinue reading “November 09, 2023 – A”

The anesthesiologist, the nurses and the surgeon who took care of my cataract surgery did their jobs better than Jesus could have done them, and the same thing applies to all the other medical staff in the surgery center, and to all the people everywhere who are caring for people. It is the Jesus thing,Continue reading “November 08, 2023 – A”

“God’s will” is an interesting concept, and it applies to everything that “Amazing coincidence” would cover as well. It also opens the way to the Grande Paradox of Life: Everything is coincidental and nothing is. Everything is a matter of chance and nothing is. We walk two paths at the same time and live withContinue reading “November 07, 2023 – B”

Worldviews have to change over the course of our life. We cannot see how we have always seen, and certainly not how our ancestors have have seen, and not even as the people we spend most of our time with see, and expect to be able to see what we are looking at and comprehendContinue reading “November 07, 2023 – A”

There is what we do for a living, and there is what we live to do. Too much of the West lives to make money for/with which they have nothing to do. “Let’s go to the moon!” “Let’s go see the Titanic!” “Let’s buy the United States Government!” “Let’s destroy democracy!” “Let’s burn everything down!”Continue reading “November 06, 2023 – A”

We need to make things right– as right as they can be made– by making reparations and restitution to indigenous people and descendants of slaves, and stop talking about God and Jesus until we do that. God and Jesus demand/require that reparations and restitution be made. We make a mockery of our affiliation with GodContinue reading “November 05, 2023 – A”

Consider the infrastructure required for this bridge to do its job at optimum efficiency. Optimum efficiency demands balance and harmony, whether it is a bridge in question or you and all the things that keep you running at optimum efficiency. Each of us is this bridge, dependent upon our sitz im leben to keep usContinue reading “November 04, 2023 – A”

There has to be an accounting, a reckoning, an awakening, a realization, a full knowing of who we are and what we have done. This is basic 12-Step stuff. Squaring up to our lapses, failures, excesses and deficits– and letting it be because it is, learning from it, and living to redeem it, making amendsContinue reading “November 03, 2023 – A”

Now is now everywhere. If everyone wherever they are would only do what needs to be done now, where and how it needs to be done, and follow that into the next now flowing from this one, the transformation would be instantaneous. And since there is nothing but now in which to experience being alive,Continue reading “November 02, 2023 – A”

The people in Stonington, Maine eke out a living as best they can, like 99% of the world’s population from the beginning– and, if they are lucky, foster an inner life that enables them to live with joy, resolve and resiliency amid the ebbs and flows of their outer life. How many world-wide through allContinue reading “November 01, 2023 – A”