Jim Dollar's Photography and Philosophy
Finding our way to The Way one situation at a time. I don't know how great it will be, but I expect it will be interesting, and I look forward to it going on past all reason because wonder is just that way. Are you coming or not?
We all experience the same things that have always been experienced. “The way of a snake upon a rock, the way of a ship at sea, the way of a man with a woman.” All of our experiences are universal experiences. They differ by the quality and degree of the expectations, assumptions and opinions thatContinue reading “June 27, 2023 – B”
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Human beings are good for laughter, playfulness, poetry, music and art. War, violence and sex trafficking… I’m sure the natural world would be better off without us, but here we are, and the trick is to make the best of it– not in terms of what we get out of it, but in terms ofContinue reading “June 27, 2023 – A”
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What’s good for the antelope is bad for the lion, and vice-versa. So what’s good? Or bad? Who’s to say? How do they know? Good and bad all depend on who’s talking and what they have at stake in the matter. Good and bad are always good or bad from somebody’s or some thing’s pointContinue reading “June 26, 2023 – A”
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We are (Get ready for this, as ridiculously unbelievable as it is) vehicles of transcendence. We are transcendent reality writ large, spilling over, pouring out. Along with Jesus, we all can say, “The Father and I are one!” Except but… If only… We are at once, transcendent wonders and the slime at the bottom ofContinue reading “June 25, 2023 – B”
We generate noise in 10,000 ways, along with complexity, drama and trauma. We could compensate for that, if we will, with emptiness, stillness and silence. In order to maintain our balance and harmony, remain in the flow of life through all situations and circumstances, and live in the way of life everlasting in each momentContinue reading “June 25, 2023 – A”
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We live looking for things that catch our eye and be alive with the radiance, the splendor, of the sublime, and divine. Transcendent reality grounds us, steadies us, anchors us, reminds us that “this”–the everyday world of normal, apparent, reality– is not all there is, or even a sizeable percentage. We are wonders ourselves, fromContinue reading “June 24, 2023 – B”
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We wade into our circumstances bent on conquest and annihilation! On “Shock and Awe”! On triumph and subjugation! And for all of the bluster, here we are. We who would be Champions of the Way, are lost, adrift and astray. Without direction or incentive, vitality or hope, with only the wasteland to call home. AllContinue reading “June 24 – A, 2023”
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I’m interested in where opinions originate and how they proliferate, and what they do on their days off. I’ve noticed that they are everywhere people are, and that everyone has more than they need, so they keep trying to give them away to anybody who will relieve them of the burden, but nobody wants moreContinue reading “June 23, 2023 – A”
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What guides our boat on its path through the sea? What idea of how things ought to be do we live to impose upon each situation as it arises? How do we know that is how things ought to be? How does how we want things to be impact our actions in each situation asContinue reading “June 22, 2023 – A”
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Being right about “Yes” and “No” is the most important thing to be right about. We can’t go by what someone else says. It is our own call all the way. We can only trust ourselves to know what we are talking about when we have more than a casual acquaintance with emptiness, stillness andContinue reading “June 21, 2023 – A”
“We are all One, but not the same One.” I wish I remembered who said that. We are one in our individuality, in our personal identity, which is as different for each of us as our fingerprints or the cones in our iris. Different in our sameness. The same in our different-ness. Seeing the sameContinue reading “June 20, 2023 – B”
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It starts with “Yes” and “No,” and being right about when to say what, and flows from there through all of the circumstances of life to form a reliable identity and establish our individuality, shaped by our original nature and the innate virtues/specialties that are with us, and are us, from birth. When Jesus said,Continue reading “June 20, 2023 – A”
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Jim Dollar's Photography and Philosophy