Category Archives: The Church of What’s Happening Now

I understand my role to be in the world as a witness–to see, hear, understand, know, what’s what, what’s happening, what is called for, and what is to be done about it, here, now, and to do it, when, where and how it needs to be done, in each situation as it arises, all myContinue reading “December 12, 2025”

The solution to being perennially happy is to stop wanting things to be different than they are. Or, better, to stop wanting. What did wanting ever do for us anyway? When we come out of the womb, we have everything we need to find what we need to do what needs to be done. WhatContinue reading “December 10, 2025”

There is always something to come to terms with. It is relentless and unending, our being asked/required to grow up some more again today. It appears to be a plot against us until we look closer and see that the trend can be linked directly to our addiction to wanting, desiring, having to have. ItContinue reading “December 08, 2025”

Being there is being here, now–which, with the right kind of emptiness, stillness and silence, is highly preferable to what passes for life most days. Stepping into this scene in your imagination, and staying a while, provides us with a refuge from horrors of the latest headline and the absurdity/insanity Donald Trump and his ideaContinue reading “December 07, 2025”

The following is also to be found as #157 of “Zen Thoughts” on my WordPress blog, “Jim Dollar’s Published Works:” All living things–all sentient beings–recognize, know, respond to being received and treated lovingly. But, don’t take my word for it. See for yourself. We make too much over love. Forget love. Forget “I love you.”Continue reading “December 06 – B, 2025”

No one can tell us where the stillness speaks to the silence, or how to find that place and what we can expect to hear there. That is why there is theology and doctrines and dogma and dharma and sutras and all those preachers and teachers who make things worse by talking us to deathContinue reading “December 06, 2025”

Anything we say about something says more about ourselves than what we are talking about. How we see the thing, anything, reveals who we are. The Buddhists who say “No Duality!” also talk about taking refuge from suffering. There is refuge and there is suffering. And, they talk about enlightenment and awakening, and they talkContinue reading “December 05, 2025”

This is an excerpt from Zen Thoughts, #154, on my Published Works Blog: If prayer worked, there would be no cemeteries, hospitals, medical schools, nursing homes, funeral homes, war or standing armies. Where does that leave us? With seeing what’s what, letting be what is and doing what needs to be done about it where,Continue reading “December 04, 2025”