Category Archives: 06/25/2020

Seeking Buddha. Seeking Jesus. Seeking God. Is seeking ourselves.We are seeking ourselves.We are the Buddha. We are Jesus. We are God.Why do you balk at that?Sit with it for a whileand you will see that it is so.You can sit looking into a mirror,or you can sit in the emptiness, stillness, silence.As you sit,you willContinue reading “November 23, 2024”

What do we hope to receive from Christianity/Buddhism?Eternal life?Nirvana?Really?Those two religions have been(And continue to be)sold as ways to guarantee our eternal-everlasting happinessfor the low low priceof believing what we are told to believe.Really?I’m only looking for assistancewith balance and harmony,serenity, tranquility, equanimity,integrity, sincerity, spontaneity,vitality, focus and clarity.I only want to dispense with wanting,and knowContinue reading “November 22, 2024”

Native Americans and People of Color have put up with/survivedvicious absurdity for 250 years.They can be our everlasting succorand guidesthrough the wilderness of fear and hatred,boiling and seething,can’t-waiting until it can show uswhat it has in store.But, in truth, there is nocomfort and consolation–and we all get to see what we are made of.”I willContinue reading “November 21, 2024”

What forms do your addictions take?I assume we are all addicted to something,given the fact that our life consistsof obstructions and dead ends and barrierson after another for as long as life lasts.My father was addicted to nicotine and alcohol.My mother, too.I’m addicted to looking out the window,writing and producing photographic imagesby the boatload.I alsoContinue reading “November 20, 2024”

A lot rides on how well we squareourselves up to,come to terms with,make our peace with,adjust to,how things areand do what we can about itwithout making things worseand ride it out.But.When we have had enough,anything goes.And.When the time is rightand “enough” is close enough,we take our chancescounting on our determinationto make it work this timeandContinue reading “November 19, 2024”

I refuse to be a part of conversationsthat have nothing to say about them.If you sit next to me at the lunch counter,I’m going to ask you how your balance and harmony(One thing, not two)is going these days.Depending on how you respond,I’m going to ask you what the most meaningfulthings you do in a dayContinue reading “November 18, 2024”

1) Rocks do it for me. Ground me.Center me.Restore my balance and harmony.Stabilize me.Orient me to the best wayto here, now.And, once I am here, now,there is the matter of what is called for–and doing that,when, where and how it needs to be done,puts us on a path to no telling where that may lead!WhatContinue reading “November 16, 2024”

Waiting for the inevitableis a great time for practicingemptying ourselves of everything,as empty as the space between breaths.We do that by trusting ourselvesto our original nature,our innate virtues–the things we do bestand enjoy doing most–and our intrinsic intuition.These are our super powersequipping us to face everythingthat comes our way.In their company,we are capable of doingContinue reading “November 15, 2024”

The end of Democracy is upon us.Everyone who voted for Trumpwill bear the stigma of their treasonthrough the endless night of the outer darknessfilled with weeping and gnashing of teethcarrying the rest of us there with themas witnesses and reminders,yet one with them in the communalAUM of grief and mourning,remorse and lamentationat the Wailing WallContinue reading “November 14, 2024”

Looking through my treasure-troveof photographs of natural places,I am awe-struck again at the numberof magical scenes in the worldthat are “transparent to transcendence,”enabling us to sense the presenceof more-than-words-can-say.And connect us with the meaning of lifeby being meaningful to us here, now,day in and day out.Sacred places are meaningful,though we cannot say what they mean,andContinue reading “November 13, 2024”