Category Archives: The Church of What’s Happening Now

When Carl Jung was asked if he believed in God, he replied: “I do not believe. I know.” I would have said, “I do not believe in believing.” “God” as we have been taught of “God” exists only as the production/projection of human beings, forced onto us by an orthodox priesthood with their livelihood atContinue reading “May 05-B, 2023”

What stirs your interest? Piques your curiosity? Ignites your passion? Catches your eye? Calls your name? Encourages your participation? How many of those things are in a day? A week? A month? How can you restructure your life to include more of those things in your days, weeks, months? If you are plodding through tooContinue reading “May 05-A, 2023”

The worst thing that ever happens to us can also be among the best things that ever happens to us. Our worst experiences can be our best experiences. Bad can also be good. Good can also be bad. Things are not one way only. We have to expand our mind to take into account theContinue reading “May 04-B, 2023”

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”