Category Archives: The Church of What’s Happening Now

Life is a great place to practice being alive. It is a proving ground, a laboratory, a testing facility, where we get up every day and find ways of being who we are, living true to ourselves, anyway, nevertheless, even so, no matter what, for as long as we breathe. Breathing is the key, theContinue reading “September 18-B, 2022”

The old formula has held its value undiminished throughout the ages: No expectations, No plans, No agendas, No opinions. The right kind of emptiness, stillness and silence. Sincerity, Integrity, Spontaneity. Original/Essential Nature. Innate virtues from birth. Lead with feeling, not thinking. Re-adjust, make corrections as needed, trusting ourselves to see, hear, understand, know, do, beContinue reading “September 17-C, 2022”

Life is the source of life. There are no gods. No pecking order. No beginning. No end. This is it. Basically, all there is– just another representation out of an infinite number of possibilities. What are the chances? It is all possible over time, and we have all the time there is. And all theContinue reading “September 14-B, 2022”

We have to make it work. We have to know what we are working for, if it can be had, and if it meshes with, exhibits, expresses, incarnates, reveals our essential/original nature, who we are. Is our heart in it? Does our work say who we are? This is always where it comes apart. WeContinue reading “September 13-C, 2022”

Facts don’t change to suit our preferences, but denial never met a fact it couldn’t disappear like that (Snaps fingers). If denial doesn’t like something, denial disappears it on the spot. There never was a truth denial couldn’t deny and X-out in a wink. You could talk to Jesus about that. Denial is a superpowerContinue reading “September 13-A, 2022”

We cannot be in this moment here/now and be thinking about, engaged with, in, some other moment, past or future. To be here/now is to be here/now. Period. Empty of everything but what is happening here/now. How often are you ever there? For how long? How long can you be here/now? Before shifting over toContinue reading “September 11-C, 2022”

The freedom to do what needs to be done establishes individuals in the right to their own perceptions and convictions by making the individual the responsible party answering the question, “Who says so?” Who says what is right in each situation as it arises? “I DO!”, shouts everybody participating in the situation. And, there isContinue reading “September 11-B, 2022”

There are four classic texts of Taoism: The Lao-tzu (AKA The Tao Te Ching), The Chuang-tzu, The Wen-tzu, and the Lieh-tzu. These were all put together between 500 BCE and 400 CE. Somewhere within that period, the following was attributed to Lieh-tzu: “The sage Wen-tzu said, ‘Someone who knows how to withdraw when his workContinue reading “September 11-A, 2022”

Freedom is not the freedom to do as we please, but the freedom to do what needs to be done, moment to moment in each situation as it arises. Will we be in bondage to our desires, bound to do what pleases us? Or, will we be in bondage to what needs to be done?Continue reading “September 10-C, 2022”

“Thin Places” is Parker Palmer’s term for “Listening Rooms,” physical locations that have always been recognized as sacred areas by people throughout the ages. Muir Woods, Yosemite, Boulder Beach, Big Creek, False Kiva, … the list is long, standout for me as holy beyond words, places where the Numen is “right here, right now” forContinue reading “September 09-B, 2022”

I cannot tell you anything you don’t already know. I can only remind you of things you know and have forgotten, or have been pushed aside by concerns for the affairs of life, which are quite legitimate, and must be tended. For instance, there is the supreme importance of knowing/realizing/honoring/reflecting/incarnating what is deepest, best andContinue reading “September 09-A, 2022”