Category Archives: 06/25/2020

The point is not to have what we want and live happily ever after. What does wanting and happy know? The point is to be who we are within the terms and conditions, context and circumstances, time and place of our lives. To be true to ourselves in each here/now of our living. To workContinue reading “March, 2023”

Ourselves–the term sounds strange until we understand that “we” are composed of a multitude of layers, all with something at stake in who we are, and our conscious exterior’s rightful place is to tune into our interior’s (Which we call “The Unconscious” because we are not conscious of it) interests/leanings/drifts/directives, so that we form aContinue reading “Spring Months, 2023”

The First Noble Truth of Buddhism is “All life is suffering.” I say, “Stop right there! Suffering is a frame of mind! A way of seeing! A way of evaluating what you are looking at! An opinion! “All life is an opinion! The way to be free of suffering is to change your mind aboutContinue reading “February 18-A, 2023”

All this striving to get, to have, to do, to be! There is nothing like it anywhere in the world of nature. We want things we have no business having. That makes us like the dragons of lore, collecting and hording treasures of gold and silver, diamonds and pearls, sapphire and jade… Things they haveContinue reading “February 17-B, 2023”

Growing up is doing things we do not want to do. Things that go against the grain, that go against the flow, that disrupt the fluid ought-to-be-ness that we love about our life. Things like Gethsemane and Golgotha. And we sacrifice ourselves again, and die yet again. Again and again. Death and resurrection, Kid. DeathContinue reading “February 12-B, 2023”

Circumstances spawn/create/produce/beget/etc. circumstances. That’s all there is and ever has been. That is all there ever will be. We keep talking about “the beginning,” and “the end.” There is no beginning! There is no end! There is no outcome! One “outcome” leads to another set of circumstances with another “outcome,” ad nauseam. The “outcome” ofContinue reading “February 09-C, 2023”

Taking something on faith is having an opinion about something with no facts or substantiating evidence to support you and believing in it anyway. Faith is an opinion with no foundation or validity. And is the ground of all religion everywhere. We have sacrificed animals, children, virgins, limbs and digits based on the opinion thatContinue reading “February 04-A, 2023”

We owe it to one another to listen each other to the truth of our own being here and now. In order to assist you in doing that, I’ve developed a list of questions you can modify for use in your own conversations, and ask your own follow-up questions in order to take the conversationContinue reading “February 03-A, 2023”

Be free to make mistakes without being bound to them, repeating them, becoming them to the point where your life is just one continuing, eternal mistake in a Karmaratic, indulgent, helplessly incapable of breaking out of the tradition kind of way declaring, “I’m nothing but a screw-up! I’ve never been anything but a screw-up! I’llContinue reading “February 02-B, 2023”

We are told what to believe, but no one can give us our opinions. Of course, they try, but to be genuine, opinions have to come from within. Belief from without, opinions from within. Articles of faith are opinions that take themselves seriously. And, when we don’t know what we think or believe, it’s greatContinue reading “February 02-A, 2023”

Jesus said, “You shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free.” Begging the questions, “Free from what?” “Free to do what?” And Pilate’s inquiry, “What is truth?” Which Jesus left hanging through all these long years of truthlessness. Which will continue as long as we look for truth “out there,” when itContinue reading “February 01-A, 2023”

I am taken by the flow of life through the circumstances and situations of each day– and how so few people seem to be aware of it. My sister-in-law, for instance (You know the one I mean), sees every moment as an opportunity to assert her way upon whatever is happening, with no clue regardingContinue reading “January 31-D, 2023”