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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?

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Category Archives: The Church of What’s Happening Now

July 15, 2023 – A

We have what we need to find what we need to do what needs us to do it in each situation as it arises all our life long. We come out of the womb knowing how to find a nipple, knowing how to stretch and how to yawn, how to sneeze and hic-up, and fillContinue reading “July 15, 2023 – A”

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July 14, 2023 – C

What does wanting know? What does wanting care? Wanting only works as a guide to life, through life, if it knows what it ought to want, and cares about doing it, and does it where, when and how it needs to be done reliably, dependably, regularly, relentlessly over the full course of our life. CanContinue reading “July 14, 2023 – C”

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July 14, 2023 – B

Jesus’ most profound saying is, “The spirit is like the wind that blows where it will.” That does what needs to be done, when, where and how it needs to be done because it needs to be done for the joy of doing it and the satisfaction of having done it, in each situation asContinue reading “July 14, 2023 – B”

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July 14, 2023 -A

We invented God as the source/reason for all that is– taking more pleasure in that than in declaring “There is no source for all that is, and no purpose to be found in any of it!” Why not, “Here we are, now what?” Why not be happy with, “There is no purpose beyond doing theContinue reading “July 14, 2023 -A”

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July 13, 2023 – A

We have had the Hero Talk before, and we will have it again, because it is central to being centered in/grounded upon what matters most. We see what matters most reflected in our heroes. Who are your heroes, fictional and actual? It is telling, for me, that I have no actual male heroes, and noContinue reading “July 13, 2023 – A”

Posted byjimwdollarJuly 12, 2023Posted in06/25/2020Leave a comment on July 13, 2023 – A

July 12, 2023 – A

The only thing that separates us is our view of what is important. If we all placed the emphasis in the same place, we would all be one— the same one. It isn’t just that we see things differently, from different points of view, from different vantage points, from different perspectives from different times andContinue reading “July 12, 2023 – A”

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July 11, 2023 – B

My Son-in-law Lee asked an AI bot to explain the Tao to a six-year-old. Here is the reply: “Do you know what the Tao is? It is a word that means the way of nature. The way of nature is how everything in the world works together in harmony. The Tao is not something youContinue reading “July 11, 2023 – B”

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July 11, 2023 – A

I call this “High Mountain Lake Sunset,” and see it as eternal and everlasting. I created it by playing with shapes and colors, allowing it to create itself by showing me what it wanted to be. All art forms itself that way, through a “dear and glorious communion” with some recipient of its need toContinue reading “July 11, 2023 – A”

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July 10, 2023 – B

What kind of God is it that has to be taken on faith? That has to be believed in due to being apparently nowhere around? One who is a complete fiction created by the priests who are paid to function as intermediaries excelling in talking people into seeing what isn’t there! As a viable alternativeContinue reading “July 10, 2023 – B”

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July 10, 2023 – A

We have to know what is holy to us, what is sacred, what we owe fealty to and honor with filial devotion, liege loyalty and unwavering allegiance. How long is your list? Mornings and evenings are holy unto me. And time. Coffee. Naps. Writing. Photography. Reading. Avoiding noise. Looking out the window. Maintaining my boundaries.Continue reading “July 10, 2023 – A”

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July 09, 2023 – B

The old Taoist masters knew it comes down to, flows from, centers upon, living from our original/ essential/ true/ eternal nature. “What was the face that was yours before your grandparents were born?” Why don’t we know? Why doesn’t everyone know? “Buddha Mind” is any mind that knows who it is and what it isContinue reading “July 09, 2023 – B”

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July 08, 2023 – C

I’ve written recently about the importance of our own confession/repentance/atonement, and there is another aspect of our sensitivity to wrong that begs to be mentioned. We are to bear witness of other people’s refusal to be truthful and their failure to be good. I’m speaking of the fascists among us. The members of Congress, theContinue reading “July 08, 2023 – C”

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