Category Archives: 06/25/2020

We think it would be great if we could write the script for our life. What would really be great is letting our life have the reins and allowing it to show us what it has in mind. Just getting out of the way and permitting our life to live itself. Having no agenda orContinue reading “November 27-A, 2022”

Jesus said, “Do not throw your pearls before swine, and do not give to dogs what is holy!” And the Syrophoenician woman said, “Even dogs eat the crumbs that fall from the table, and it rains on the just and on the pigs alike. and the sun shines on the just and the pigs alike.”Continue reading “November 26-D, 2022”

There is nothing more to it than this: 1) See what’s happening in each situation as it arises. 2) Be right about what needs to be done in response. 3)Do it. 4) Repeat through all situations as they arise. All the ethical, moral, spiritual, theological, philosophical orations through the ages go into the burning barrelContinue reading “November 25-B, 2022”

We are to our lives as a river is to its channel. The river cuts the channel as the channel shapes and restricts the river. Who is in charge, in control? The circumstances are in control. How much rainfall? For how long? How often? The river cannot be separated from its channel, or channel fromContinue reading “November 24-C, 2022”

Our memories shape us, creating a background tone for our life and setting us up for a future conditioned by our past no matter what we do there. Living to redeem our past or to repeat it are equally bound to it, and we cannot step away from how we got here to just beContinue reading “November 24-B, 2022”

A national day of thanksgiving is a good idea, reminding us of the central place gratitude and appreciation have in the life of every human being, humbling us and grounding us in the realization of our utter dependence upon the benevolent grace of things quite beyond our control. Call it “being lucky,” and remember thatContinue reading “November 24-A, 2022”

Compromise and negotiation are the tools most useful in the transition process from duality to unity. Generally the process is co-opted in favor of disappearing the opposition, not negotiating and compromising with it. The heretics were burned at the stake, or tortured to death, or fed to the lions, hung, drowned, run out of town,Continue reading “November 23-A, 2022”

We bring ourselves forth in the way we live our life, or not. Our context and circumstances bring us forth, or not. We live the way we say our life needs to be lived, or the way someone else says our life should be lived– and we say that is all right with us. WeContinue reading “November 22-C, 2022”

We live to make things better for all sentient beings– by doing what needs to be done when, where and how it needs to be done in each situation as it arises, no matter what. That statement requires us to take it on faith. There is no way it can be established to be soContinue reading “November 22-B, 2022”

Wanting/Having/Going/Doing must be balanced with Seeing/Hearing/Knowing/Being, allowing Doing to flow naturally in response to what is called for in each situation as it arises. This means No Agendas/Plans/Schemes/Plots, No Contriving/Arranging/Engineering/Orchestrating No Imposing/Forcing/Compelling/Coercing… You see how this turns upside down, inside out, the foundational assumptions of the culture, of the world. And you see how theContinue reading “November 20-B, 2022”

To live the truth we have to be able to live a lie. To be true to ourselves we have to violate all of the standards that hold life together. Maybe walking off into Galilee, and maybe bearing the pain of a marriage to a man no one could live with for the sake ofContinue reading “November 14-A, 2022”

There is much to be attuned to. Living in accord with the Tao, aligned with the spirit that blows where it will, situation by situation, requires a degree of awareness/mindfulness that we are not trained to initiate, much less maintain. We cannot expect to be so attuned and aligned without regular returns to emptiness, stillnessContinue reading “November 3rd Week, 2022”