Category Archives: 06/25/2020

“Om mani padme hum” translates as “The jewel is in the lotus.” This phrase simultaneously implies its completion: “The lotus is in the slime at the bottom of the pond.” “The jewel is in the lotus, and the lotus is in the slime at the bottom of the pond.” Where does the slime stop andContinue reading “July 14-B, 2022”

The concept of “God’s will” comes to grief upon the realization that if this is the best God can do, God should be fired. And if this is not the best God can do, God should also be fired. A God who wills being incapable of doing better than this is a disgrace to theContinue reading “July 14-A, 2022”

It would be easier to be a sand dune, or a mountain range. Nothing to do but sit there and take it. Let the wind blow you where it will. Nothing to strive for, fear, desire, dread… Life presents a completely different set of problems. We wonder when is the best time to do what?Continue reading “July 12-C, 2022”

It is all in what we make of it, do with it, do about it. It is nothing without us. We make it what it is. It is what it becomes through us and our interaction with it, our interplay with it, our impact upon it, which is also its impact upon us. And “it”Continue reading “July 12-B, 2022”

We wait to see where it’s going, what to make of it, what to do. Everything shakes out by and by, clarifies, comes into focus. In the meantime, we wait. And watch, and listen, taking it all in without judgment or opinion. There is this, and that, and those things over there, but what needsContinue reading “July 12-A, 2022”

We surprise ourselves from time to time, with the right action done in the right way at the right time in the right place, even when nobody notices and life clicks right along. Clicking right along is the point. The wrong thing– particularly the really wrong thing- would have made an impact, rocked that portionContinue reading “July 11-B, 2022”

We have to be right about what needs to be done, when, where and how, and do it in each situation as it arises all our life long, no matter what. And. There is no way we can be always right about it. So, we have to be alert to that reality, and make ourContinue reading “July 10-C, 2022”

The world needs its human population to be vitally alive. For that to be true of us, we have to be interested in what we are doing, and understand it to be necessary work, vital work, important in a substantive way to the welfare of ourselves and our neighbors. We have to be doing workContinue reading “July 10-A, 2022”

The life we are living needs to evoke, enable, serve our original nature and the innate virtues that are ours from birth. However, this may be other than what we do to pay the bills evokes, enables, serves. In that case, we walk two paths at the same time, by keeping an eye on theContinue reading “July 09-A, 2022”

It’s tricky. We have to know what we are doing, and we have no idea of what we are doing, so we have to know that we do not know what we are doing, and focus on knowing what we know. We have to know what we know in each situation as it arises. Discounting,Continue reading “July 08-C, 2022”

In the emptiness, stillness and silence, everything comes up for inspection. If we can hold it in our awareness as interested observers, without engaging with any of it, just watching, just seeing, just knowing, we can discover how our experience has impacted us by the frequency with which things appear to pass in review. andContinue reading “July 07-C, 2022”