Category Archives: 06/25/2020

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”

Laughter has to be a part of life. No one can be alive without laughing. There is no humor in the Bible. Zen saves Buddhism. Taoism was there before Zen was. Makes Taoism the go-to perspective for life. Chung Tzu leads the way! Leih Tzu is next in line. Wen Tzu softens Lao Tzu andContinue reading “November 13-B, 2022”

Our standard of measure isn’t what we get out of it, but the quality and degree of effort we put into it. How pleased are we with our level of focus, concentration, attentive presence, compassion/kindness/concern, situation by situation throughout the day? How could we be more involved with, attuned to, a part of, what isContinue reading “November 12-A, 2022”

Dylan Thomas’ poem, “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Light, Rage, Rage Against The Dying Of The Light,” misses the point that the light doesn’t die, and our dying may well be a transition back into the light that is our origin and our destination. One form of energy returning to another form ofContinue reading “November 10-C, 2022”

The human spirit is like the wind that blows where it will– and it must be this way in order to catch up with, exhibit and reflect the wind at the heart of life, blowing where, boundless, without restraint or restrictions, alive and living to go and be and do, where and when and howContinue reading “November 10-A, 2022”

The Farther Shore is never farther away than the fore-shortened distance from the canoes to the moraine. It is a matter of perspective, of “turning the light around,” of seeing with eyes that see things as they are: Oneness everywhere, right here, right now, for those with eyes to see. What do you see? LookContinue reading “November 07-B, 2022”