Perspective is how we look at things. Perception is what we see when we look. Our perception can be skewed by how we look, which can be skewed by what we expect to see, and what we have seen before that what we think we see reminds us of. The Buddhists have a saying: “Emptiness,Continue reading “August 17-A, 2022”
Category Archives: August 2021
August 11-C, 2022
The path to the path is generally as close as we get to the path. The path to the path is everywhere. Anywhere. It is all a matter of keeping our eyes open and walking the path we are on, being alert to the choices we make as the path branches, forks and dead-ends. WhatContinue reading “August 11-C, 2022”
August 31, 2021
01 Balance and harmony, sincerity and integrity, spirit, energy and vitality are seven words without reference to anything actual, tangible, material, concrete– capable of being held, touched, smelled, weighed, measured, acquired, amassed, horded… They refer to states of being. And there are no steady states of being. Being is being in motion, and being atContinue reading “August 31, 2021”
August 30, 2021
01 Being vaccinated enhances freedom on every level. COVID is the end of freedom on all levels. This is all we need to know about this matter. And all we need to say. –0– 02 “May it be well with you and all those who see as you do.” That is the best we canContinue reading “August 30, 2021”
August 29, 2021
01 Wu Wei is a Taoist term. For action that is a spontaneous response to the situation as it arises– a response that is not thought into being, but lived into being at the appointed time and place of its occurring. It is doing the right thing at the right time in the right placeContinue reading “August 29, 2021”
August 28, 2021
01 Putting ourselves in accord with the way things are, and with the way things need to be– because that is the way they truly need to be, and has nothing whatsoever to do with how we want them to be– is the work of our life. We do this through emptiness and silence. EmptyingContinue reading “August 28, 2021”
August 27, 2021
01 Show of hands! Raise your hand if you hate your job and your life. Look to see if your hand is up. If it isn’t, you are in denial, and possibly high. The world is in the state it is in because people hate their job and their life. And are taking it outContinue reading “August 27, 2021”
August 26, 2021
01 Find the flow of your life, sense the movement– or the blockage– and become curious about the state of flow here and now. Courage assists flow, fear resists it. Anger throttles it. Compassion creates options and possibilities. Receiving the moment with compassion opens us to the possibilities of flow inherent in each situation asContinue reading “August 26, 2021”
August 25, 2021
01 Begin paying attention to your situations, noticing when one goes over into another. Our situations carry us with them, becoming our life, so that our life is simply a string of situations, one going over into the next, from birth to death. Each situation has its own movement, its own pace and timing, withContinue reading “August 25, 2021”
August 24, 2021
01 Leverage in any situation is used to lever the good of the situation into place. Every situation needs something. To step into each situation endeavoring to serve our advantage, our good, our gain, our benefit, our desire is to do grave harm not only to that situation but also to all situations which flowContinue reading “August 24, 2021”
August 23, 2021
01 When the destabilizing forces roll through your world, how do you re-stabilize? What do you do to restore balance and harmony? I wait to find the next thing that needs to be done and do it. And then find the next thing that needs to be done and do it. And on and onContinue reading “August 23, 2021”
August 22, 2021
01 I recommend that you make a mandala your personal symbol/reminder/guide for achieving and maintaining balance and harmony– which imply and include sincerity, integrity, spirit, energy and vitality. You are familiar, surely, with the Myers-Briggs Personality Type Inventory. It is a quick reference tool for the opposites within us that need to be consciously andContinue reading “August 22, 2021”