The Buddha under the Bodhi Tree is Jesus in Gethsemane and on Golgotha.And Dylan Thomas writing as his father lay dying, “Do not go gentle into that good night! Rage! Rage! Against the dying of the light!” The last one alive is still dying. The work remains the same: Rage! Rage! Against the dying ofContinue reading “December 25, 2025”
Category Archives: 06/25/2020
December 24, 2025
Swamp grass has nothing to do with Christmas Eve, and Christmas Eve has nothing to do with the war in Ukraine, or with why we all can’t just get along. Or why we all can’t be billionaires. Not that we could get along if we were. What’s the key to getting along? Growing up mayContinue reading “December 24, 2025”
December 23, 2025
We experience That Which Has Always Been Called God all of the time without acknowledging what’s what, what’s happening, what’s going on. It’s time to Tune In, Turn On, Wake Up And Get With the Program in an “Oh, THERE You Are, Peter” kind of way. We are looking for experiences with flow, synchronicity, coincidence,Continue reading “December 23, 2025”
December 22, 2025
The old Taoists sensed the Tao was/is an elementary aspect of existence, always here like time itself, and psyche. Three concepts with a timelessness about them. Time itself being timeless in the sense of being here/there always and forever, like the Tao, like Psyche, elements of being that “just are” in an always have beenContinue reading “December 22, 2025”
December 21 – B, 2025
This is #22 of “200 More Zen Thoughts From Jim Dollar #1” on my WordPress Blog: We are capable of realizing/recognizing the Buddha in the Buddha and the Christ in the Christ. If we can realize/recognize it in them we can realize/recognize it in ourselves if we would but get out of our way andContinue reading “December 21 – B, 2025”
December 21, 2025
In two weeks I will step into my 82nd year, with no health problems to speak of. I hope I have twenty more years with no health problems to speak of. With Psyche/Tao to work on, I will have plenty to be interested in, so maintaining a healthy body/mind relationship over a twenty year periodContinue reading “December 21, 2025”
December 20, 2025
Intuition takes the lead in knowing what’s what and what’s called for in each situation as it arises, but. Ambition and desire trump–the way Trump trumps the good everywhere he goes–balance, harmony and the flow of life and being in the unfolding of life as it could be, leaving us with the ruins of whatContinue reading “December 20, 2025”
December 19, 2025
The natural world fluctuates around a “happy medium,” or “a bell-shaped curve” where daily things are mostly what they “always have been and what they will be.” Carl Jung said, “We are who we always have been and who we will be.” We belong to the natural world and are as it is, preferring stability,Continue reading “December 19, 2025”
December 18, 2025
Doing what is called for in each situation as it arises, when, where and how it is called for, is all the is asked of us, and constitutes the flow of life and being. It is the way tennis players play the game, the way dancers dance and the way singers sing, hitting the rightContinue reading “December 18, 2025”
December 17, 2025
Let the sentinels who keep watchtake no rest nor allow him to restuntil he has remembered his promisesand returns to make us the boast of the earth! Misplaced allegiances lead to a lot of grim realizations, no?Leading to Now what? Where do we go from here?The Silence is always with us.We could go there andContinue reading “December 17, 2025”
December 16, 2025
This bird knows what it is doing, where it is, what is going on. This bird knows what its business is and is about it to the fullest extent of its being. Would that we could say the same things about ourselves. My associate pastor and I would ground ourselves by asking, whenever it wasContinue reading “December 16, 2025”
December 15 -B, 2025
I have just published on my “Jim Dollar’s Published Works” blog on Word Press, “Three Points on Prayer” as an excerpt from my eBook, A Handbook for the Spiritual Journey II, available from Amazon Kindle with an internet search for “Jim Dollar Kindle.”
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