Wanting, particularly wanting my way NOW!, is the bane of all times. Those who know, know that what is called for here, now,is the most important thing any time, any place. The Tao nails it: Doing the right thing in the right way at the right time in the right place. That is, doing theContinue reading “August 20, 2025”
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August 19, 2025
Meister Eckhardt said, “The final leave-taking is leaving God for God.” He meant leaving the God of theology for the God of Psychic dimensions. Dying is the only way of settling the argument between Orthodox Christianity and Gnosticism–between those who believe they know and those who know they know.It’s a ridiculous standoff between opposing pointsContinue reading “August 19, 2025”
August 18, 2025
Caring about the things we have no business caring about is the root of all of our problems today. It is about being right about our priorities, our ratios, and our duties.Our duties need the most clarity. The “Thou Shalts and Shalt nots” can lead us in a merry chase if we take someone else’sContinue reading “August 18, 2025”
August 17, 2025
We have to befriend our inner resources in order to give ourselves the best chance of giving each situation as it arises the best we have to offer–which begins with “Peaceful abiding, here, now.”D.T Suzuki said the term “enlightenment” is synonymous with “habitual intuition.” How are we living to enhance our relationship with our intuition?Continue reading “August 17, 2025”
August 16, 2025
Each situation has its own direction and flow that has to be recognized and taken into account. Forcing action that is not conducive to the situation as a whole creates a disturbance in the flow that has impact and implications for the balance and harmony and wellbeing of the here, now and the not yetContinue reading “August 16, 2025”
August 15, 2025
We are capable of things we cannot imagine simply by relaxing into ourselves and opening ourselves up to each situation as it arises, allowing the situation to call us forth in the service of what is called for here, now. The old Taoist ideal of doing the right thing, in the right place, at theContinue reading “August 15, 2025”
August 13, 2025
God is a psychic reality, not a spiritual being.Comprehending this changes everything.For one thing, it makes us the closestsome people ever get to God.And it gives us the opportunity to remind them that they, too, are God, and need to start acting like it.Without saying anything about going to hellif they don’t.If they don’t, theyContinue reading “August 13, 2025”
August 12, 2025
We all are Psychic marvels, as is every other physical thing in the Cosmos. Psyche is the source of everything. And, if we are wondering what the point of it all is, the whole point is just for the joy of it. There is nothing to gain beyond being joyful over the experience of beingContinue reading “August 12, 2025”
August 11, 2025
I would like to talk things over with strangers just to get their take on things. But they don’t seem to welcome my inquiries. There should be places for conversation like libraries are for books and magazines. Maybe AI will develop along these lines. I can imagine talking to people long dead, brought to lifeContinue reading “August 11, 2025”
August 10, 2025
Money means power and control. In the service of what? Toward what end? What is controlling the controllers? They create chaos, noise, complexity–in the service of what? Having their way? Getting/having what they want? They serve the joy of pushing things around, burning things down? Destroying, decimating, all things good? Anger unleashed upon civilization? AContinue reading “August 10, 2025”
August 09, 2025
There was no Garden of Eden.There was no Adam, no Eve.There was no Original Sin.There was no need of atonement/redemption.There was no need for Jesus to die on a cross.Etc.It was all made up by people with nothing better to do.What are we going to do now?I recommend growing up.Facing the truth of how thingsContinue reading “August 09, 2025”
August 08, 2025 – B
We are in the presence of something at all times.It is hard to miss a sunrise like this,and we have to look more closely at other things,but. Everything waits to be seen for what it is, where it is, when it is, how it is, and that is what we are here for–to see whatContinue reading “August 08, 2025 – B”