01 The most important Commandment in the Old Testament didn’t make it into the Top Ten. It was too controversial. “Thou Shalt Not Remove Thy Neighbor’s Landmark!” Take the Big Ten to the burning barrel. All we need is the one left behind. Understanding “landmark” on all of its metaphorical levels puts everything in itsContinue reading “September 18, 2021”
Category Archives: September 2021
September 17, 2021
01 Light acts like a particle and acts like a wave, depending on what the occasion requires. Light is a contradiction in terms. So are you. So am I. So is life. So is the cosmos. So is truth… It is Yin and Yang all the way down! This means we are free to beContinue reading “September 17, 2021”
September 15, 2021
01 The forces at work in our lives are like gravity and love in that they are always there in the background behind the scenes holding things up, keeping things going, animating things, directing things, making possible all that is possible, and may yet be– needing only cooperation and assistance to make it so. NoneContinue reading “September 15, 2021”
September 13, 2021
01 Everyone dies. The trick is to not die too soon. Practically everyone dies too soon. And are the walking dead Jesus was talking about (Because no one– not even Jesus– can talk to them. They are quite dead, and long past being able to hear anything being said to them) with his, “Leave theContinue reading “September 13, 2021”
September 12, 2021
01 Individuals are capable of growing up, putting their childish past behind them and being mature in the way they deal with their life. Not so nations. Where nations are concerned, immature individuals pursue military and political power to compensate for a gross absence of maturity and character, and we get what we have onContinue reading “September 12, 2021”
September 11, 2021
01 Things are the way they are because it is in someone’s best interest that they stay this way. Who benefits from the way things are? Find those who do, and you know why things are as they are. What to do about it is “complicated,” as everyone who knows says. “Complicated” means keeping thingsContinue reading “September 11, 2021”
September 10, 2021
01 Things are in sync even when they are out of sync. Exploding stars are the kettle drums in the orchestra creating the music of the spheres. You might love Yellowstone now, but you would not enjoyed being around when it was formed. Much of the park is the caldera of a super volcano. TerribleContinue reading “September 10, 2021”
September 09, 2021
01 Adam’s and Eve’s sin was not some “want of conformity unto, or transgression of, a law of God,”… And we will pause here to allow me a side soliloquy on this phrase, “want of conformity into, or transgression of, a law of God,” saying that it came to my attention as the prescribed answerContinue reading “September 09, 2021”
September 08, 2021
01 The world does not care about doing what is right. That leaves it up to us, as individuals. The flow of the world is against the flow of Tao, which is about doing the right thing at the right time in the right place in the right way because it is right so toContinue reading “September 08, 2021”
September 07, 2021
01 The truth is who we are, and how well we exhibit that in each situation as it arises throughout our life. We are here to bring ourselves forth. To be who we are. Within the times and places of our living. All our life long. How well we are doing that is evidenced byContinue reading “September 07, 2021”
September 06, 2021
01 What it is going to take is sitting still, being quiet. We find in the silence all we need to meet the moment, moment by moment, in each situation as it arises, all our life long. Sitting in the silence– being able to sit in the silence– means emptying ourselves of all the noiseContinue reading “September 06, 2021”
September 03, 2021
01 Heinrich Zimmer said, “The best things cannot be said, the second best things are misunderstood, the third best things are the things we talk about.” That would be, news, weather, sports, gossip and drama. Lao Tzu exposed the emptiness of words with his, “Darkness within darkness–the gateway to mystery.” And, “The Tao that canContinue reading “September 03, 2021”