Category Archives: The Church of What’s Happening Now

There is nothing we cannot deny. Denial keeps us where we are. If it weren’t for denial, where might we be? Denial is a superpower in a negative sense. Recovering alcoholics know about the power of denial– and the power of looking denial in the eye, facing the truth of the legitimate pain of life,Continue reading “May 04, 2023 – A”

The culture/the world is in hot pursuit of the perfect means With no idea of an end worthy of it. I wish I remembered the name of the photographer who said, “The more equipment you have, the fewer pictures you take.” Fine clothes and tattered lives. We draw the wrong lines in the wrong places.Continue reading “May 03, 2023 -B”

Meeting the day without expectations, agendas, opinions, intentions, demands, attitudes, judgments, plans, designs, programs, and ideas for the way things should be, is to be ready for anything, except, perhaps, a test on any of the above. To walk unprepared into the day, just as we are, as ones thus come, waiting to see whatContinue reading “May 03, 2023 – A”

We make it up as we go, dancing with what the day brings, maintaining our balance and harmony as best we can, looking for what needs to be done and doing it using the gifts of our original nature and our innate virtues/specialties/things we do best and enjoy doing most, guided by what resonates withContinue reading “May 02, 2023 – A”

The fascists among us hate us because we are not fascists. The fascists feel safe only among other fascists. Everybody else exists to serve them. If they can be of no service, they are fit for nothing other than death. That is how fascists think. The fascists are arranging things politically so that they winContinue reading “April 30-B, 2023”

Balance and harmony, peace and tranquility are the grounding qualities enabling the kind of reflection that leads to realization and right-action. They are countered by noise and complexity drama and trauma– the destabilizing aspects of our environment our life too often encounters. Thus requiring regular recurring retreats to emptiness, stillness and silence in order toContinue reading “April 30-A, 2023”

It is said that the Buddha held up a Lotus flower before a crowd and said, “You can look at this flower, and either see it, or see it not.” Only Mahākāśyapa smiled. Seeing is smiling. Is laughing. Is rolling on the floor, or the ground, howling with delight and wonder, amazement and joy. AndContinue reading “April 28-C, 2023”

Vitality, integrity, sincerity, heart. Foundational principles for guiding our way through life. Original nature. Innate virtues. How we do what we do best. Aligned with the center/source, balanced, in harmony, inner and outer, yin and yang. The way to The Way is The Way. Wanting more, with eyes on other things, distraction, disruption, disharmony, destabilization.Continue reading “April 28-B, 2023”

Our response to the circumstances/situation can interfere with/prevent the solution to the circumstances/situation. Our influence is the uncertain element in the work to balance the equation that is every situation as it arises. In light of Shel Silverstein’s observation, “Some kind of help is the kind of help that help is all about, and someContinue reading “April 28-A, 2023”

This image makes me want to sit on the big log on the left and wait until tomorrow so I can do it again. Scenes like this do “it” for me. Going to heavy weight fights, or attending the Super Bowl don’t. This “me/not-me” sense of who we are is but one of the expressionsContinue reading “April 27-A, 2023”