Category Archives: 06/25/2020

The individual is the hope of the world.As an individual,the most important thing I can dois convince you of your own significance.And encourage you to developyour relationship with yourself,particularly learning to recognize your original natureand your inherent virtuousities(The things you do bestand enjoy/love doing most),while honoring and followingthe guidance ofyour intuition,your body’s felt sense,and yourContinue reading “April 19, 2024 – A”

How can anything be not God?God is the first and the lastGod is she who is honored and she who is mockedGod is the whore and the holy womanGod is the wife and the virginGod is the the mother and the daughterGod is a sterile woman who has many childrenGod is she whose wedding isContinue reading “April 18, 2024 – B”

We owe ourselves intrinsic loyalty,filial devotion,love and duty.How do we think of our foundation,of our core,of our sourceand the ground of our being?Our life is the testimony of our allegianceto our original natureand the innate virtuosities(The things we do bestand love/enjoy doing most).To betray them is to leave the path,to depart from the way,to wanderContinue reading “April 18, 2024 – A”

If we aren’t yet Jesus and the Buddha,we are the closest thing to boththat a lot of people will ever get,and it would behoove us to realize this,and do our best Jesus/Buddha imitationwhen we are going about our businessin the world.Our business is very much Jesus’ business,is very much the Buddha’s business,and how we carryContinue reading “April 17, 2024 – A”

A couple of Bible verses,”Time and chance happen to us all,””It rains on the just and the unjust alike,”put the hiatus on the idea that everything that happens is God’s willthat it happens.We need a rest from that nonsense,a lengthy break.That and the idea that if God didn’t will it,”God let it happen.”God did thisContinue reading “April 16, 2024 – A”

How do you maintainyour balance and harmony?We need a regimen,a process,a program,a routinethat we engage in regularlyto clear our vision,regain our perspective,recharge our resolution,reorient our direction,reclaim our determination,revitalize our incentiveput ourselves back on trackand get underway again.Finding things that need to be donethat we can dowholeheartedly is a great wayto get underwayand stay there.Maintaining ourContinue reading “April 15, 2024 – A”

Theology and spirituality are mutually exclusive, theology being the product of the Left Hemisphere, and spirituality being the steady state of the Right Hemisphere.Theology is thinking/logically/reasonably knowing, and spirituality being seeing/hearing/realizing/grasping/comprehending/understanding/etc. knowing. Theology’s knowing is content with knowing, spirituality’s knowing must express/exhibit/reveal/etc. itself in doing—the right thing in the right way at the right timeContinue reading “April 14, 2024 – A”

I remind us of this a couple of times a year.Here it comes again:It’s all useless, pointless, hopeless,meaningless,stupid and absurd–and coming to a very bad end:We all are going to die!And, we can’t let that stop us,or even slow us down!Because in the meantimewe have work to be done!We have to show them what itContinue reading “April 13, 2024 – B”

You know how the way things are? Putin destroying Ukraine while we watch.Much like Hitler destroyed Europe,and Alexander the Great destroyed the known world.And how what’s going onhas been going on from the beginning.And is going to be going onlong after we have stopped going at all. Well, there is nothing we can do aboutContinue reading “April 13, 2024 – A”

We can’t help how we see things,but.We are responsible for how we see things.Which means, of course,that we can help how we see things.It starts with seeing how we see things.Seeing our seeing is the most important thing to see.The second most important thing to seeis seeing that how we see things IS NOT HOWContinue reading “April 12, 2024 – B”

Our response strongly influenceswhat happens next.We shape the futureby the way we respond to the present.There is typically more at stake in any momentthan getting our way in the moment.Imagining likely scenarios and practicing our response to each oneprovides us with the experienceof having worked our way throughpractice rounds before we go live.I practice fendingContinue reading “April 12, 2024 – A”

The Buddhist concept of “Bodhisattvas” beautifully flips the Nirvana/Pure Land,Heaven/Hell narrativeby positing a shift in perspectivethat sees the world as it is,not as a place of sufferingand meaningless wandering,with death as a hoped-for escape from “the everlasting roundof grief, loss and sorrow,”but as a place of unending opportunityto practice the art of healing/helpful presence,by returning–notContinue reading “April 11, 2024 – B”