Category Archives: The Church of What’s Happening Now

Living for the good times, looking for the action– any action will do– is running from all that matters, denying all that is threatening/disappointing/unwanted… hiding from the truth that cannot be borne… And it is the way of life for a majority of the world’s population. And that isn’t going to change. Our work isContinue reading “October 21-A, 2020”

Living toward having preferences without opinions or judgment will keep us within the normal distribution curve of balance and harmony. Having wants and desires without having to have them works the same way. Being clear about the source of our fear, hatred, anger, sadness, anxiety, depression, jealousy, envy, resentment, etc. will help restore balance andContinue reading “October 19-A, 2022”

Circumstances have a mind of their own. We are awash upon a sea of circumstances. A pandemic comes along, global warming washes away the world, fascism becomes a thing, Republicans threaten to end civil rights and health care… and it all boiled up seemingly out of nowhere, but there was a long build-up of apparentlyContinue reading “October 17-A, 2022”

Cooperation, coordination, being on the same page, or, at least, in the same book, makes life possible, even enjoyable. Where do you experience something akin to this in your life? And where do you experience being alone against the world? “Community” means abandoning yourself at the door, putting on your corporate face, and thinking/doing whatContinue reading “October 16-B, 2022”

Our perceptions are our impressions, our understandings, our interpretations, our assumptions, our inferences, our conclusions regarding apparent aspects of reality. My perceptions of a mound of dirt near the patio of our next house on an inspection tour with the HOA president, matched his when he identified it as a fire ant bed and beganContinue reading “October 12-B, 2022”

There are circumstances producing consequences, and consequences creating circumstances, generating forces and momentum, opportunities and possibilities, with one thing following another, spinning off from another, becoming altogether different from anything that has ever been because it could. Anything that can happen will happen over time. And does happen. And has happened. You can think ofContinue reading “October 10-B, 2022”

Reconciling ourselves to the world/life/the way things are is our life-long work. It is the Sisyphean Task, and the core of the Hero’s Journey. We never complete it, we always continue it. Thinking, “Now we have done it at last,” merely sets us up for “Here it comes again!” All the stages of life areContinue reading “October 10-A, 2022”

Nature is just what it is. Everything in the natural world is making out as best it can without rules and laws and conventions. Civilization pretends to be civil. We can trust nature to be nature, but we cannot trust civilization to be civil. Including the churches, the courts and the justice system. And whoContinue reading “October, 2nd Week, 2022”

We nurture, nourish, our connection with the way through routine returns to emptiness, stillness, and silence, and with regular visits to the natural world. Nature is just so, just as it is, with no pretensions or aspirations, and a reach that does not exceed its grasp. Our nature is that way as well. The BuddhaContinue reading “October 08-A, 2022”

Circumstances create, produce, generate their own outcomes, results, effects, consequences. Which, themselves, create, produce, generate new circumstances creating different outcomes, consequences… It rains and a river forms only where a river could form. “Mamma, who made the beautiful river?” “The rain, honey.” “Who made the rain?” “Circumstances and possibilities.” “Who made the circumstances and possibilities?”Continue reading “October 07-B, 2022”

We make things worse than they need to be by enlarging them beyond the absurd into the realm of things Hollywood hasn’t come up with. We scare ourselves sick with our endless “What if that then?” scenarios. I recommend that we stop it. And tell ourselves instead, “We will deal with whatever comes up.” InsteadContinue reading “October 03-A, 2022”

Our life is a string of coincidences and another string of luck intertwined and playing out, and what we make of it is our gift to the mix. It helps to have little in the way of expectations, agendas, plans, opinions, judgment, willfulness, demands and requirements. Being true to our essential nature and our innateContinue reading “October 1-A, 2022”