04 We do not know what to do about many things, and we have no control over many more things, but this moment, here and now, demands our presence and our response. All of our anxiety and anguish over what will happen can be set aside for this moment right here, right now, and weContinue reading “December 31, 2020”
Category Archives: December 2020
December 30, 2020
04 The Tao te Ching observes, Water doesn’t force its way, water finds its way. The same source favors having no agenda beyond knowing what is called for and doing it the way it needs to be done, at the time it needs to be done, and then, letting nature take its course into theContinue reading “December 30, 2020”
December 29, 2020
06 Balance and harmony are not steady states of being. Riding a bicycle is controlling the wobbles. Living a life is like that, only trickier. The natural order is chaotic. That is where we come in. We keep Yin and Yang within their traces, with neither getting the upper hand. Anything that is too muchContinue reading “December 29, 2020”
December 28, 2020
03 We all possess a super weapon that is well within our reach, yet far exceeds our grasp. It is simply-and-simultaneously-impossibly being mindfully aware of what is happening and what needs to happen in response in each situation as it arises, and how we might help meet that need with the gifts/virtues/characteristics/ genius/original nature thatContinue reading “December 28, 2020”
December 27, 2020
04 Here we are. Now what? The relationship between/among the individual and the collective required to produce and maintain, oversee and steward, meaningful change for the good of the whole– the whole earth– is governed by what? Who does what to whom, when, where, how? The Tao is doing the right thing in the rightContinue reading “December 27, 2020”
December 26, 2020
04 Our life is uniquely equipped to lead us to the heart of what matters most. The problem is that we have our own ideas about what that is. And our life has to get us to abandon our idea of what matters most and to embrace our life’s idea of what matters most, andContinue reading “December 26, 2020”
December 25, 2020
04 Martha Graham premiered Lamentation on January 8, 1930. You can participate in her dance here: Hers was/is the only appropriate response to her times and ours. Metaphors express what words cannot say. The most important things cannot be said. The deepest things cannot be said. The truest things cannot be said. Yet we haveContinue reading “December 25, 2020”
December 24, 2020
01 It is Christmas Eve. A wonderful time for re-evaluating your relationship with your life. We know all about what needs to be changed about the world. What needs to be changed about you? About your relationship with you? About your relationship with the world? It is a week until New Year’s Eve. The NewContinue reading “December 24, 2020”
December 23, 2020
02 “What should I do? What response should I make? What is being asked of me? What is being called for in this immediate situation, here and now?” We only have to know what is being called for in the situation that is most pertinent in any moment, to know what we should do. WhatContinue reading “December 23, 2020”
December 22, 2020
02 We care too much about the wrong things, and we care too little about the right things. Consider what you care about, and what you don’t care about. All of the time. –0– 01 We are on our own. No one can do it for us. Teachers, at best, can only offer their experienceContinue reading “December 22, 2020”
December 21, 2021
04 Today is the Winter Solstice, the shortest day in the year, and the day the sun turns back toward the earth. The day all those human beings were sacrificed through the ages to bring The God back– and it WORKED!!! All of our ideologies “work” the same way! “Let it be!” said the Beatles.Continue reading “December 21, 2021”
December 20, 2020
02 Joseph Campbell said, “The crucial thing to live for is the sense of life in what you are doing, and if that is not there, then you are living according to other people’s notions of how you ought to live.” Whenever that describes our current situation, we have to stop. Look. And listen. WeContinue reading “December 20, 2020”
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