Category Archives: The Church of What’s Happening Now

If we take the parables of the prodigal son and the good Samaritan seriously, hell has no place in our life– and purity (represented by the elder brother, and the people walking past) itself is a stumbling block, and Christianity has no foundation or reason for existence. So, there’s that. And spirituality is free toContinue reading “June, 2023”

Wu-We is action without deliberation. Doing that is not agenda directed. Spontaneous, not arranged. Jazz isn’t conducted. “It just happens.” Living that way is living in harmony with the moment, with the circumstances, with the time and place, conditions and context of our living. That said, a lot goes into “just being.” I drove toContinue reading “May 31-A, 2023”

We know more than we know we know, and we don’t want to know it because it would get in our way– it would get in our way of having our way. All we want is to have our way NOW!!! Knowing what we know puts an end to that. Knowing what we know meansContinue reading “May 30-A, 2023”

If we live long enough, we all come to the same realizations, the same truth. Those who know, know the same things. Those who don’t know are lost in the world of their own aspirations and desires, their wants and their will, incapable of perceiving what’s what and what needs to be done about itContinue reading “May 29-B, 2023”

Playing it straight up, living from the heart, no contriving, conniving, scheming, lying, deceiving, pretending, not being true to ourselves… is something we have to live our way into being truthful from the inside out. We cannot be truthful from the outside in– because someone tells us to. We can only be truthful because weContinue reading “May 29-A, 2023”

Everything falls into place around clarity. Clarity is the product of emptiness, stillness, and silence– and the relentless practice of asking all of the questions that beg to be asked, and saying all of the things that cry out to be said in each situation as it arises. This brings to light all of theContinue reading “May 28-B, 2023”

We all need to go sit down in a quiet place and wait for realization/awareness/enlightenment. Enlightened beings do not do “it” the way we do “it.” Seeing things changes things. We are stuck where we are because we do not look and wait to see. We are all pin balls looking for a flipper. AndContinue reading “May 28-A, 2023”

We cannot see, or be shown, what we cannot see. We all have “blind spots” due to our assumptions and expectations, beliefs and convictions. Our psychic configuration can shut down our physical abilities. We are possessed by forces we cannot comprehend. People who have been “brain washed,” or hypnotized– and where does that line lie–Continue reading “May 27-A, 2023”

An immediate side-effect of mastering the art of Caring/Not-Caring is the ability to be at peace with whatever comes up in a “So What? Who Cares? Why Would Anybody Expect Anything To Be Different From This?” kind of way. And, that enables us to laugh at everything that happens with, “Of course! This is theContinue reading “May 26-A, 2023”

We have heard of Wu-We, “Doing without striving, without intention, without agendas, plans, goals, ends, etc. There is another Wu-We-like attitude that is equally essential, and I do not know the Chinese word for it: Caring While Not Caring. Living like we care deeply about everyone and everything, while not caring about anyone or anything.Continue reading “May 25-B, 2023”

The joy of now just as it is just as we are is rarely mentioned, rarely experienced. We are striving to be somewhere else, some way else, some how different, some place better. This won’t do. The wonder of being here/now is wasted on us. I invite you to drop into here/now from time toContinue reading “May 25-A, 2023”

We see things differently and strive to impose the way we see things on each other and all others. It’s crazy from the start. Whose idea about how things are and how things ought to be is the correct idea? How do we establish who is right and who is wrong about how things areContinue reading “May 24-A, 2023”