Category Archives: The Church of What’s Happening Now

Lao Tzu said (In the Wen-Tzu): “Although we speak of attaining the Tao, there is really nothing to attain, since we possess it from the very beginning. We arise from the Tao. The Tao resides in us. We cultivate ourselves from within.” “The origin of purity lies in impurity. When impurities settle in stillness, purityContinue reading “May 21 – B, 2023”

A hammock is my version of a Zazen cushion. Zen purists will have none of it, but. A Zen purist is an anomaly. A contradiction in terms. Purists have no pace within light years of Zen. They cannot accuse me of Zenlessness without establishing their own Zenlessness as well. Zen popularized the phrase, “If youContinue reading “May 21 – A, 2023”

Jesus’ question, “Who do you say that I am?” came immediately following, “Who do others say that I am?” And sets the seat of authority squarely upon the individuals he is addressing, and not upon any self-proclaimed contemporary authority, or any self-proclaimed “Orthodox” authority that might appear at any point in the future. Jesus alsoContinue reading “May 20-B, 2023”

Coming to terms with the day– with our life– means seeing the day (our life) just as it is, and allowing that to be that without any more emotional response than that associated with letting a tree be the tree it is, or letting a cloud be the cloud it is. Seeing things as theyContinue reading “May 18-A, 2023”

I need the right kind of emptiness, stillness and silence. I am waiting on the next realization. Enlightenment is realization. We are enlightened one realization at a time. There is no absolute state of enlightenment. There is no end to realization. We all are waking up to what’s what and what needs to be doneContinue reading “May 17-B, 2023”

Everything spins according to the outcome we want to achieve. It’s the Rorschach applied to dreams and life. What do we see when we look? At whatever we look at? What do we see when we look again? What do we want to see? What do we want it to be? What we look at.Continue reading “May 16-A, 2023”

The super weapons we all possess are our perspective, perceptions, awareness, clarity, instincts, intuition, sense of timing, awareness of the path, accord with the flow of vitality/life, our original nature and innate virtues/specialties. Trusting ourselves to these inner quailities and sensitive to the coincidental alignment of outer circumstances, we are well-equipped to find our wayContinue reading “May 15-A, 2023”

We live looking for diversion/distraction/entertainment– anything to pass the time with nothing worth our time to do. The same old same old gets boring fast. There is nothing in any of it that interests us, enthuses us, captures our attention and our presence so that we lose track of time and can’t believe it isContinue reading “May 14-B, 2023”

Security and stability are the two big ones when it comes to the necessary foundation for a life well-lived. We have to be able to pay the bills and not worry about where to spend the night or if we will eat the next day. After that comes #3: We have to incur the rightContinue reading “May 14-A, 2023”

We live to balance the contradictory forces of life in our life and world. We live for the sake of balance and harmony, avoiding the extremes, honoring the flow– which includes the ebb and flow of circumstances and situations as they arise, keeping an eye on our inner harmony within the outer requirements and needsContinue reading “May 13-B, 2023”

What keeps us from being what the situation is calling us to be? Lack of awareness/clarity. Lack of interest. Desire–there is something we want, are more interested in– than what the situation needs/is calling for. Fear–we are distracted by concern for our interests. Sloth/laziness/lethargy–maybe tomorrow, some other time, later, one day. Ignorance–we have no ideaContinue reading “May 13-A, 2023”

How far away from who we are can we live without developing symptoms, incurring the wrath of the neglected life and being lost in the wasteland of endless discontent? And, when we are born into a cultural and social ecosystem which denies there is an Axis Mundi, or “center pole/axis,” or “essential identity,” for eachContinue reading “May 12-A, 2023”