Category Archives: The Church of What’s Happening Now

Joseph Campbell said the path of maturity is that of “breaking out of the psychological bondage to the culture into a self-responsible authority with the courage to accept and express one’s own thoughts about one’s own life.” We are to become self-directed, self-propelled, self-sustaining human beings in our own right. How, here’s the thing aboutContinue reading “January 27-A, 2023”

Throw away the theologies, the doctrines, the dogmas, the sutras, the dharma, etc. In their place recognize integrity, sincerity, spontaneity, emptiness, stillness, silence, balance, harmony, original nature, innate virtues/traits/characteristics, spirit/vitality/life. Remove noise/complexity/drama. See and do what needs to be done here and now when/where/how it needs to be done for no reason other than itContinue reading “January 23-B, 2023”

What practice do you follow to maintain/recover your balance and harmony? How do you sustain your focus? Your direction? Your connection to the central pole, the axis mundi, of the turning/heaving/crashing/chaotic world? What brings you back to who you are– to your original nature and the innate virtues/traits/characteristics that are yours from birth? An abidingContinue reading “January 23-A, 2023”

There is what we have, and there is what we need, and there is what we wish we had, and there is what we think we need. And here/there we are. How to be right about what we have and what we need is our life’s work. The truth is that we have what weContinue reading “January 21-B, 2023”

We have what it takes to rise to any occasion and do what needs to be done in each situation as it arises. The problem is that we don’t want to. We don’t want to is our only problem. If we only wanted to do whatever is asked of us, we would have no problems.Continue reading “January 21-A, 2023”

Coming to Jesus is coming to ourselves, is coming to. Jesus had to come to Jesus by coming to himself, by coming to. In the wilderness, in the lonely vigils at night, in Gethsemane, on Golgotha. We all have to follow the same path, in coming to terms with the discrepancy between how things areContinue reading “January 20-B, 2023”

Being clear about who we are in terms of our original nature and innate virtues/traits/characteristics, our specalities and our interests– and open to/aware of each situation as it arises, attuned to what is happening and what is being called for, positions us to be who we are and to offer what is needed out ofContinue reading “January 20-A, 2023”

Our practice consists of living in the service of our original nature and our innate virtues (traits, characteristics, the things we do best), in creating and maintaining an atmosphere, orientation, demeanor which exemplifies emptiness, stillness and silence, balance and harmony, sincerity, integrity, spontaneity, spirit, vitality, life, and avoids noise, complexity, drama, in doing what isContinue reading “January 19-B, 2023”

We could talk about “God’s will for our life,” and we could talk about “Our life’s will for itself.” And we could wonder, “Where does the line lie between That Which Has Always Been Called ‘God,’ and us?” And I would say, “There is no line!” I would also add, “We are as close toContinue reading “January 18-C, 2023”

What’s your specialty? The things you do best and enjoy most. My specialty is looking out windows. And articulating what’s what. I earned a living with the articulating part, but that doesn’t happen without the windows part, so, there is a sense in which I earned a living with that, too. Puts me in aContinue reading “January 18-A, 2023”

This is the third way of representing/presenting the same scene (Refer to the two previous images in this series). Which way is it really? None of the three! The “real scene” was entirely different, related only by being in the same general area at the time I was there. My point is the multiplicity ofContinue reading “January 17-D, 2023”

Responding to the occasion in ways appropriate to the occasion opens the way to being at one with the moment, in sync with the time and place of our living, aligned with the rhythm and flow of life here/now, doing what is called for, where, when and how it is called for– the essence ofContinue reading “January 16-B, 2023”