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 have to develop our own eyes! We cannot allow anyone else to do our seeing for us! Yet, how many of us “see” with other people’s eyes?! The entire thrust of Christianity– and all other religion– is to talk us into allowing “those who know best” to do our seeing and our thinking forContinue reading “June 19, 2023 – B”
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Fraser Snowden said, “The only true philosophical question is ‘Where do you draw the line?’ It is a bigger question than that. Knowing where we draw the line, and drawing it, is owning our own “Yes” and “No.” When we own our “Yes” and “No,” and draw lines commensurate with our decision, we are establishingContinue reading “June 19, 2023 – A”
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Jason Garret, when he was coaching the Dallas Cowboys, said, “It comes down to this: Handle the success of the game and keep playing. Handle the adversity of the game and keep playing.” He was saying, “Deal with it and go on. Without making a big deal of it.” The old Buddhists thought Dharma cameContinue reading “June 18, 2023 – B”
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Step into any theological/doctrinal/dogmatic debate with only one question and you will be the last one standing when all the others have left the room. “Who says so?” Is all you need ask, and keep asking. “The Bible says…” “Who says the Bible knows what it is talking about?” “All of Christendom throughout the ages!”Continue reading “June 18, 2023 – A”
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There is on the path and there is off the path. There is seeing what we look at and there is not seeing anything at all. There is knowing what we know and doing what needs to be done about it and there is diversion, distraction, denial. Also known as entertainment and letting the goodContinue reading “June 17, 2023 -A”
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Our psyche seems to be the source of all things. It is the invisible world that serves as the foundation of the visible world. We have access to both worlds, live in two worlds at the same time, and project/imagine the psyche to be a world apart, heaven, where God and the angels, and allContinue reading “June 16, 2023 -A”
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Looking back, I see that all of my yes’s and no’s were spot-on. Even when I said yes to something I should have said no to, and no to something that should have been yes, they were exactly proper and fitting for what they led to and what happened next. For instance, I said yesContinue reading “June 15, 2023 – B”
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We walk through our days looking for what catches our eye, calls our name, invites us to tag along for a trip through wonderland. We seek that which moves us and fills us with a sense of vitality and enthusiasm, life and purpose, so that we live in its service with filial devotion and liegeContinue reading “June 15, 2023 -A”
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Each of us sees things in ways unique to us. The way we see things is how they are to us, and they are not that way to other people. My guess is that the way we see things is as distinctive to us as our fingerprints. And, we are not in charge of theContinue reading “June 14, 2023 -A”
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We live with what there is to do, with what we will do with it, with what we have done, and what we have failed to do. The ultimate doing is making our peace with all things. Balance and harmony require us to make our peace with all things. “This is the way things are,Continue reading “June 13, 2023 -A”
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“The path that can be discerned as a path is not a reliable path” (Martin Palmer/Lao Tzu). We know the path that is our path, the way that is our way, only by way of hindsight, and by way of being open to the here/now through emptiness– as empty as the space between breaths– stillnessContinue reading “June 12, 2023 – A”
Jesus raised the dead and left the dead to bury the dead. He forgave a guilty woman and cursed an innocent fig tree. He forbade praying on street corners and said, “Let your light shine before others.” He said, “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you,” and told a parable aboutContinue reading “June 11, 2023 – A”
Jim Dollar's Photography and Philosophy