Category Archives: 06/25/2020

If we want to find the right king of people, we only have to be the right king of people and they will find us.Why don’t we all make it our life’s work to be the right kind of person? All it takes to know what constitutes the right kind of person is to makeContinue reading “July 28, 2025”

There are people in charge of things who have no qualifications for being in charge of anything. Who have impure motives and malevolent intentions. And are a threat to everyone they perceive to be not like them. And the rest of us have no way of protecting ourselves from them. This may be the wayContinue reading “July 27, 2025”

I’m sending my images to a stock photography company, thinking that I would prefer that they collect dust on an external hard drive in a cardboard box in one of their closets than in one of my closets, which would become one of my daughters closets in due time. It is my way of eternalizingContinue reading “July 26, 2025”

What guides our boat on its path through the sea?It can’t be “I want.”What does wanting know?There is nothing like wanting to screw things up worldwide forever.If we are at the mercy of wanting, we would be better off if we just stop right now and don’t do another thing until we can get wantingContinue reading “July 25, 2025”

There is doing what we have to do to pay the bills and make a living. Beyond that, there is being who we are, doing what is ours to do. In addition to that, there is doing what is called for, when, where and how it is called for, in each situation as it arises.Continue reading “July 23, 2025”

The Buddha died from eating poorly cooked pork.How enlightened was that?Enlightenment is not a steady state of being.False assumptions never announce themselves in advance.We can’t take anything for granted.What are we overlooking here, now?What is interfering with our being awake, aware, aliveto what’s happening now, moment to moment, day to day?If you said, “Ten thousandContinue reading “July 22, 2025”

Allowing things to play out according to their own drift and flow, while applying a light touch to influence direction and reduce impact, is the age-old secret of parenthood, as demonstrated in the black-and-white television classic, “Father Knows Best,” and suggested in the first edition of the Tao Te Ching, on page after page.Taking aContinue reading “July 20, 2025”

Integrity is the solid ground of being.Every natural thing is just what it is.The Buddha is celebrated as “one thus come.”Like a new-born baby.Popeye the Sailor Man’s theme was “I yam what I yam!”It is the most important thing to be.Integrity, Sincerity, Authenticity.The Holy Trinity of human behavior.And the goal is to be that spontaneously,Continue reading “July 19, 2025”

We are not individuals born to have what we want and do as we please. We are Psychic wonders living to express and enjoy the amazing experience of being one with all living things in a universe where life is a miracle able to reflect on and realize the awe of being self-reflective forms ofContinue reading “July 17, 2025”