Category Archives: The Church of What’s Happening Now

In the emptiness, stillness and silence, everything comes up for inspection. If we can hold it in our awareness as interested observers, without engaging with any of it, just watching, just seeing, just knowing, we can discover how our experience has impacted us by the frequency with which things appear to pass in review. andContinue reading “July 07-C, 2022”

The grounding center of true religion is listening, seeing, feeling, intuiting, knowing, trusting, doing, being what is called for in the time and place of our living. There is no believing any doctrine, theology, creed, or dogma. There is only the experience of the here/now and our response to it on the level of psyche/somaContinue reading “July 07-A, 2022”

01 We have to know what is required of us and be right about it. And do it. We are not free to do whatever we want with our life. We are obligated to live according to, aligned with, in accord with, our life’s idea for itself. We have to know what we need toContinue reading “July 06-C, 2022”

01 Everything starts with and flows from autonomy. You have to have the right and the freedom to be who you are, living out of your own sense of direction and purpose, being true to your original nature and the innate virtues that are yours at birth. You have to have the right and theContinue reading “July 06-B, 2022”

01 Bear the pain of life’s disappointments, betrayals and tragic turns with sincerity and integrity, living out of your original nature and innate virtues, doing your best to make the best of it all, anyway, nevertheless, even so, no matter what. And, when it is done, go to meet your death the same way youContinue reading “July 04/ 2022”

01 I am glad I am not in charge of you. It is a terrible thing anybody has to be in charge of anybody. That anybody has to be somebody’s charge. It should be collaboration all the way. Nobody telling anybody what to do. Everybody reaching consensus about what needs to be done and whoContinue reading “July 03, 2022”

01 We have too much to think about. That’s the first thing. The second thing is an extension of the first: We have too much to think about that we do not want to think about. And that leads to the third thing: We create pleasant distractions/diversions and think about them to give us somethingContinue reading “July 02, 2022”

01 Take it standing up and ask them if that’s the best they got. You can do it with the right perspective, attitude, frame of mind. Perspective is a super power, transforming everything and transforming us to deal appropriately with everything. There is nothing that the right perspective can’t improve. Step into your life withContinue reading “June 28, 2022”

01 The tools at our disposal are our awareness, our original nature, our innate virtues, innocence, integrity, sincerity, spontaneity, emptiness, stillness, silence, playfulness, pace and timing. Everything else falls into place around, and flows from, these things. Our practice is learning to live in ways that serve and share them, moment to moment in eachContinue reading “June 26, 2021”

01 Joseph Campbell had the right kind of parents. I’m envious. With the right kind of parents children have an immediate advantage that others their age can never overtake. Just try getting over having had the wrong kind of parents! And mine were no worse than 90% of the parents in their age group. GivesContinue reading “June 25, 2022”

01 Against Orthodoxy! In Praise of Heresy! G.K. Chesterson said, “When Jones follows his Inner Light, Jones follows Jones.” Of course. As with everybody who follows anything. Ask someone why they follow whom they follow. Let’s say their Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. And they will give you the spiel implanted by Orthodoxy, “Blah, Blah,Continue reading “June 23-B, 2022”

01 “Tat Tvam Asi” is Sanskrit for “Thou Art That,” meaning the individual is the Absolute, or, as the Buddhists say, “All is Buddha-mind.” It takes but a shift in perspective to see that it is so. That shift in perspective is known as “Enlightenment,” or, “Awakening.” As Jesus would say, “The Father and IContinue reading “June 22, 2022”