Category Archives: March, 2022

01 Take God out of the equation and how do we make sense of things? Without theology, what do we do? What orders life then? What structures existence? What is the ground of morality and ethics? The purpose and goal of what we do? The reason for life? God is a safety net, catching usContinue reading “March 17, 2022”

01 When we live transparent to ourselves, aligned with our original nature, seeing what’s what, hearing what is called for in each situation as it arises, and doing what needs to be done about it with the gifts and virtues (The things we are good at) that come with us from the womb, we areContinue reading “March 15, 2022”

01 We think it is one way and it is another. We think it is about this and it is about that. We think it is one thing and it is something else. We think we know what we are doing, and we do not have a clue. We sort it out by eliminating theContinue reading “March 14, 2022”

01 Be right about what needs to be done and do it. In each situation as it arises. Being right about what needs to be done is a simple matter of living in right relationship with the right kind of emptiness, stillness and silence, and the right kind of relationship with yourself and your circumstances.Continue reading “March 13, 2022”

01 No one can do me better than I can. Jesus couldn’t do me better than I can. The same things go for you. You know all the people who think they could do you better than you are doing you? And try to all the time? Giving you tips and pointers, making suggestions, offeringContinue reading “March 12, 2022”

01 The Gateless Gate is to be found in every landscape, in all situations. It only takes remembering this is so for it to be so, standing before us to turn the light around, bringing perspective and perception to bear on this here and now, transporting us, shifting us, from the rational, physical world ofContinue reading “March 11, 2022”

01 Know what you love. Do what you love. If you can’t pay the bills doing what you love, do what it takes to pay the bills, AND do what you love. If your heart isn’t in what you are doing, start doing things you can do with all your heart. Heart leads the way.Continue reading “March 10, 2022”

01 Realization springs to mind, seemingly out of nowhere, but it is cultivated through awareness and relaxed contemplation, mulling things over, sitting still and taking a walkabout. Or actually walking about in the same stillness that sitting can produce. Realization dawns on us as we hold contradictory thoughts in mind, without being troubled by opposites–polarities–Continue reading “March 09, 2022”

01 In 635 of the Common Era, a Christian mission to China, probably from the church in Persia, arrived in Chang-an (Now Xian), the capital of the Tang Dynasty. This was likely a mission of the Church of the East, whose beginnings can be traced back to Thomas called “The Twin, one of the originalContinue reading “March 06, 2022”

01 Enlightenment is knowing what’s what and what is called for, and when and where and how to respond to that call with the gifts, genius, daemon, shtick, creativity, imagination, virtues, etc. that came with us from the womb. Our original nature comes complete with all we need to do what is needed but. WeContinue reading “March 05, 2022”