We live between our conscious mind (Which can be thought as ego-mind) and our unconscious mind (Which can be though of as body-mind). Our ego has to be able to handle its role as a “double agent,” balancing the needs of life in the conscious, visible, world of concrete reality, and the needs of theContinue reading “July 19-C, 2022”
Category Archives: 2022-C
July 17-C, 2022
In talking with Bill Moyers, Joseph Campbell said, “The symbolic ideas and metaphorical images of mythology and religion are poetical in the sense that they do not refer to actual, physical, facts. Rather all of the references of religious and mythological images are to planes of consciousness, or fields of experience, that are potential inContinue reading “July 17-C, 2022”
July 17-B, 2022
There is always something to not like about our life, about life generally, about the experience of being alive. If we let that become A Thing, we get divorced, quit our job, move to a different location, take up drinking and/or drugs, maybe enter psychotherapy, and allow it to become the center of our attention,Continue reading “July 17-B, 2022”
July 16-C, 2022
What moves you? Find it! Be moved by it! Seek the Source! The Mover behind being moved! Moved toward what? Moved away from what? What is the field of movement? Moved by what? Moved to what? What is the nature of movement? Movement is the nature of life. Life is the nature of movement. LifeContinue reading “July 16-C, 2022”
July 15-C, 2022
Joseph Campbell said, in one of his interviews with Bill Moyers, “Arthur Schopenhauer said, ‘When you reach a certain age and look back over your life, it seems to have had an order about it, it seems to have been composed by someone. And those events that when thy occurred seemed merely accidental and occasional,Continue reading “July 15-C, 2022”
July 15-B, 2022
I worry about not having what it takes to rise to the occasion and meet what is coming in each situation as it arises as I get older and less reliable situation by situation. And I laugh and remind myself of Thich Nhat Hanh’s mantra, “Darling, I am here for you, and together we willContinue reading “July 15-B, 2022”
July 15-A, 2022
Thich Nhat Hanh said that Jesus was the western Buddha. He could have said the Buddha was the eastern Jesus. Everybody who knows the truth knows the same thing. Everybody who does the truth, does the same things. Truth is the great connector. If there is disagreement, someone is not being truthful. Jesus and theContinue reading “July 15-A, 2022”
July 13-C, 2022
I know two things about That Which Has Always Been Called God across all time and place, which I call The Source: The Source has no favorites, and has nothing at stake in any outcome– has nothing riding on anything. It is all just fine exactly as it is, and it all is on theContinue reading “July 13-C, 2022”
July 13-B, 2022
We live to be true to ourselves and aligned with what is asked of us in each situation as it arises. We bring forth what is called for from the stores of our original nature and the innate virtues that are ours from birth to meet the needs of the moment, moment after moment, overContinue reading “July 13-B, 2022”
July 13-A, 2022
What does thinking about what you think about keep you from thinking about? Make your peace with that and you have it made– as much as you can have it made in a culture grounded upon diversion, distraction and denial. Entertainment, noise, complexity and confusion are the orders of the day every day. If weContinue reading “July 13-A, 2022”
July 11-C, 2022
All growth is growing up, is maturation, is changing the way we see things, is transforming what is important, is expanding, enlarging, the scope of our vision and our comprehension of the inner-relatedness of things. Grown-up human beings are identical twins. Or close enough. They are able to “get along” despite their differences. Can seeContinue reading “July 11-C, 2022”
July 11-A, 2022
We are here to figure out what we are here for and how to achieve it. We start with finding our original nature and our innate virtues, and then think of avenues we might explore for applying our gifts/daemon/shtick/knacks/interests/etc. in the service of what needs to be done, when, where and how it needs toContinue reading “July 11-A, 2022”
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