Category Archives: 06/25/2020

From the beginning we lived in relationship with transcendence, because we were dependent upon transcendence to guide and direct us, protect and sustain us, comfort and console us… And then, we invented money, and lost the way to transcendence. Before money, no one ever thought the goal of life was to be happy. Before money,Continue reading “December 15-A, 2022”

This Crèche was molded, hand-painted, fired and constructed by my aunt, Lois Hamilton, in Itta Bena, Mississippi in 1968 (+/-), and has been a part of our family ever since. +++ This only works if you do not take it literally. The entire Bible works that way. You have to see what you are lookingContinue reading “December 14-B, 2022”

Joseph Campbell said, “I think anyone who pays attention to their inner life knows when they are living in harmony, and when they are out of harmony, with their own center.” And when we are “on the beam,” it is as though we are living a charmed life, and doors open where there were noContinue reading “December 13-A, 2022”

Joseph Campbell said, “Foster your virtues, don’t dwell on your sins.” The old (Classic) Taoists made nothing of sin, and everything of living in accord with our original/essential nature aligned with our innate virtues. Virtues here are to be understood, not as the opposite of vices, but as the peculiar characteristics, qualities and traits thatContinue reading “December 11-A, 2022”

We have to learn to live for something beyond our desire and fear (Joseph Campbell). But. We are sure there is nothing beyond our desire and fear. The First Death is letting go of our desire and fear. It is the first of many deaths all the way up to the Last Death, which isContinue reading “December 10-B, 2022”

What form does your protest take? I strive to see things as they are and keep going, keep looking– in an “Anyway, nevertheless, even so” kind of way. It is like this: If this is the best we can do as a species over time, we should be ashamed. And, if this is not theContinue reading “December 09-A, 2022”

My advice about what to do with Christianity is to keep the metaphors and symbols and throw away the theology. God, for instance, is a metaphor, not a fact. A metaphor for “More than words can say.” Like the Tao, in that “The Tao that can be said/told/defined/explained, is not the eternal Tao.” Or, perhapsContinue reading “December 08-B, 2022”

Being empty is the best way I know to find your way through whatever is in your way. Overwhelmed is the end of the way. Emptying ourselves of all that is overwhelming is the beginning of the way. No one ever found their way through overwhelmed by being overwhelmed. We find our way through overwhelmedContinue reading “December 08-A, 2020”

Partnering with our unconscious mind is largely a matter of making ourselves available to it in a routine and regular way, simply by being aware of the presence of “the other” within. Carl Jung referred to the unconscious as “The ten million year old person within.” That “person” is not primarily verbal but communicates viaContinue reading “December 07-A, 2022”

The Practice is emptiness, stillness, silence, sitting, waiting, watching, listening, looking, for something to stir to life, arise, emerge, occur, fall into place, as realization, comprehension, understanding, hearing, seeing, knowing, calling us to rise and do what needs to be done, when, where and how it needs to be done, as often as it needsContinue reading “December 06-B, 2022”

Unconscious and conscious have to get together, singing the same song, walking the same path, living in conjunction with one another, one mind, one body. For conscious to live at odds with unconscious is to be cut off from the wellspring of life and to wander without guidance and direction through the wasteland of discontentContinue reading “December 05-A, 2022”

Growing up is changing our mind– particularly about what is important. Growing up is changing the way we think. Changing the way we look at things. Changing the way we see things– seeing everything as though for the first time all of the time. Growing up is waking up some more again every day. TheContinue reading “December 03-B, 2022”