Category Archives: October 2021

01 Live to be appropriate in the time and place of your living. “Appropriate” is the right combination of what is needed in the moment and what is allowed by the moment. And if you are going to err, err on the side of what is needed. Dance on the boundary line of what isContinue reading “October 30, 2021”

o1 There is only the pain– dancing with the pain, bearing the pain, coming to terms with the pain, making our peace with the pain… Growing up is an exercise in pain management. Living is adjusting ourselves to the pain of being alive. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, you are in denial.Continue reading “October 29, 2021”

01 We maintain our balance and harmony by being aware of it throughout each day. Pausing to take a Balance/Harmony Inventory from time-to-time will be a great addition to your schedule. Simply sit quietly, focused on your degree of balance and harmony, and allow yourself to become aware of the wobbly nature of the worldContinue reading “October 28, 2021”

01 It’s the quiet life for me. In preparation, perhaps, for my eventual return to the eternal silence, from which we come and to which we belong. Just being, I suppose, with what we have done, and what we have failed to do, in the time that was ours to show/discover/make our peace with ourContinue reading “October 27, 2021”

01 I want you to make peace with your life– while being true to your original nature in conjunction with the context and circumstances of the time and place of your living. I want you to live truly, to truly live, to live truthfully in light of all that is true in a “This isContinue reading “October 24, 2021”

01 I wish people were transparent. At least as transparent as dogs and horses. There is no lying with dogs and horses. Or cats. We know where we stand with plants and animals. They all are like the Buddha, as one “thus come,” just as they are, straight from the womb, or the acorn. WeContinue reading “October 23, 2021”

01 The forces that keep from happening any of the things that need to happen are firmly in place and nothing can happen that ought to happen. The Good always needs champions, but none are currently available, and all that might have taken the role are complacent and compliant servants of The Way Things MustContinue reading “October 21, 2021”

01 We rise and meet the day, every day. And do there what needs to be done. When it needs to be done. Where it needs to be done. How it needs to be done. Because it needs to be done. Each day has its own rhythms, and occasions, and times. Its own movement, andContinue reading “October 20, 2021”

01 Balance and harmony form the um-welt for, and are the offspring of, sincerity, spontaneity and integrity. Living out of sincerity, spontaneity and integrity in the service of balance and harmony, is to have nothing at stake in the outcome. It is to live from emptiness in the companionship of silence, doing what needs toContinue reading “October 18, 2021”

01 The way of integrity is the way of being in tune the way a harp or a piano is in tune, and in character the way Groucho Marx, and Betty White, were always in character. Just being who we are, when we are, where we are, how we are, within the context and circumstancesContinue reading “October 16, 2021”

01 Everything depends upon and flows from emptiness and silence. Until we can be empty even of the desire to be empty, we do not have what it takes to live with balance and harmony. And, without balance and harmony, sincerity, spontaneity and integrity have no entry point into our life. And, without sincerity, spontaneityContinue reading “October 15, 2021”