Where would we be without our escapes,diversions, distractions, denial, retreats…?The experience of being alive asks too much of us”late and soon.”Squaring ourselves up with “the way things are”is an on-going, never-ending task.”It’s always something.”And we all need a break from time to time,and never seem to catch a break.It is “more of the same” allContinue reading “May 14, 2025”
Category Archives: 06/25/2020
May 13, 2025
If we take the Hindu idea of Brahman as the spiritual foundation of the cosmos and understand it to mean that “All is Brahman,” so that everything is the same essence appearing in different guises–which Einstein encourages us to do using the word, “energy” instead of “Brahman,” in his statement, “Energy cannot be created orContinue reading “May 13, 2025”
May 12, 2025
What do we want from religion? Eternal life? Invisible assistance in having our way/getting what we want? The old Taoists sought to align themselves with the Tao or Wayin order to assist/participate in the flow of life and beingby doing what was called for in each situation as it arose–doing the right thing, in theContinue reading “May 12, 2025”
May 11, 2025
There are places that restore our souls.That restore us to our souls.That put us back in the company of our souls.We should spend more time in those places.Beauty is truth.Truth beauty.Even when it is ugly, horrible, terrible, no good.Truth does not lie or deceive and that is the beauty of truth.We know what’s what thanksContinue reading “May 11, 2025”
May 10, 2025 – B
Following up on the previous post, Alan Watts makes Hinduism plain. He says, The Upanishads, the sacred writings of the Hindus, says,“The intangible non-objective ground of everything that exists is identical with the ground of you.” “And it is fundamental to Vedanta that the supreme Self is neither one nor many, but as they sayContinue reading “May 10, 2025 – B”
May 10, 2025
Sustaining, maintaining, regaining our balance and harmonyis the key to a well-lived life.Art, music and nature, trance states, babies and petshelp to center and focus us in order to do what is called for”on the heaving waves of the wine-dark sea.”And, That Which Has Always Been Called “God.”I say “That Which Has Always Been CalledContinue reading “May 10, 2025”
May 09, 2025
Projection, properly understood and diagnosed, is the end of religion. We are seeing things that are not there by being coerced into taking everything on faith. “It doesn’t exist until you believe it does! Then it becomes an absolute fact like that! It is magical and miraculous and proof that God is REAL!!!)It is projection.IContinue reading “May 09, 2025”
May 08, 2025
How long will recovery take?Nothing Trump is doing will reduce that time.And, if we think about recovery worldwide,from The Amazon, to Gaza, and Palestine…the time frame just gets ridiculous.Why do we live in ways that do not enhance life?What are we living for in ways worldwidethat do not enhance life?What are we seeking short termthatContinue reading “May 08, 2025”
May 07, 2025
God comes to life in us and through usin ways and in places where it might be said thatwe are “One with the Tao of life and being.”One with the Taoand one with God are the same thing.Alive to the time and place of our living.In tune with what’s what and what need to beContinue reading “May 07, 2025”
May 06, 2025
We pick up and go on anyway, nevertheless, even so.And that is as close to forgiveness as we need to get.Grave transgressions against us change things forever.It will never be as it was.”A voice was heard in Ramah, weeping and loud lamentation, Rachel weeping for her children; she refused to be comforted, because they areContinue reading “May 06, 2025”
May 05, 2025
Do me a favor and stop right now and do an internet search forfather greg boyle, and watch some videos. Come back when you are ready.Greg Boyle is who God would be if God could be anyone God wanted to be. Which, of course God cannot be because God is the projection of everyone whoContinue reading “May 05, 2025”
May 04, 2025
Trusting ourselves is not trusting our thinking mind,but trusting our feeling intuition.It is about sitting down, shutting up, and waiting for clarityby recognizing an emotionally charged sense of right directionwhen one arises.Trusting ourselves to know the way when the light comes onis essential trusting.And we just wait to know,knowing that we will know when weContinue reading “May 04, 2025”
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