We have to be available.What it means to be available is this:”Those who would be my disciple have to pick up their cross everyday and come with me.”Cross-bearing is making the routine sacrifice/practice of handing over what we want in the service of what needs to be done, when, where and how it needs toContinue reading “September 20, 2025”
Category Archives: The Church of What’s Happening Now
September 19, 2025
We are the source of everything that isn’t a rock or a tree. Including God. We made it all up, right out of our own Psyche/imagination. We told ourselves stories that scared us into making up other stories to calm us down. Hate, anger, fear and greed are the origin of most of our problemsContinue reading “September 19, 2025”
September 18, 2025
We are all that stands between us and the Void.That being the case, we might think we would be doing a better job laying a foundation with ourselves that will allow us to deal with what’s coming up, instead of looking the other way and hoping for the best. If the best were in play,Continue reading “September 18, 2025”
September 17, 2025
We lived for a while with the fantasy of Galahad and his heart of nobility, purity and grace carrying us forth like Jesus from the grave as a goal for us to strive for, a human wonder for us to be, but.There was always littleness, meanness, hatred, greed, wrath and fear shinning through, getting inContinue reading “September 17, 2025”
September 16, 2025
The Buddha saw “Peaceful abiding, here, now,” as the foundation of “having life and having it abundantly.” I call it “Looking out the window.” When I sit, I sit looking out the window, at the focal point, the foundation, of “having life and having it abundantly.” Everywhere can be the vehicle/Portkey/threshold/doorway to “peaceful abiding, here,Continue reading “September 16, 2025”
September 15, 2025
I would like to live exactly where I am living, and be doing exactly what I am doing. I wouldn’t change a thing. It’s called “Having it made.”And, what does one do when one has it made? What is called for in each situation as it arises, day after day. Which may have nothing toContinue reading “September 15, 2025”
September 14, 2025
Nothing beats–and everything flows from–asking the questions that beg to be asked and saying the things that cry out to be said. Doing so paves the way for reflection that leads to realization. And that leads to seeing, hearing, knowing, doing, being what is called for in each situation as it arises–and no one canContinue reading “September 14, 2025”
September 13, 2025
Realization comes from our reflection on our experience. We make up the bullshit to suit ourselves. For instance, what makes dirty words dirty? And what makes white people superior? Where does experience end and projection/assumption/presumption begin?We know so much that isn’t so, who can keep track anymore? Bullies have taken over the world. Normal peopleContinue reading “September 13, 2025”
September 12, 2025
We do not suffer from a dearth of information. We suffer from an abundance of desire.We want everything.Stop wanting and everything falls into place.Then, we do what is called for and not what satisfies our current craving.If we wanted emptiness, stillness and silence the way we want what we want, it would be a differentContinue reading “September 12, 2025”
September 12, 2025
Tethered. The boat is useless and in the way unless it is tethered to something throughout its life. The same thing applies to each of us. To what are we tethered? What anchors us? declares what we are about? To what do we belong? What is our business? Ours to do?Our identity is wrapped upContinue reading “September 12, 2025”
September 11, 2025
They live around making a life at Peggy’s Cove.We live detached from making a life.We make a life “at the office,” or somewhere out of sight.Away from where our life is lived.I like the idea of living being what we dowherever we are,by giving ourselves to what is called forin each moment.Do not put offContinue reading “September 11, 2025”
September 10, 2015
God is a psychic reality, not a spiritual being.The psychological mechanism of Projection turns a psychic reality into a spiritual being–projecting “out there, up there” what is “in here.” I cannot be the first/only person to figure that out. So, why are we still awash in the hocus-pocus, “Bubba! Help me!” stuff?Bubba is “in here”!Continue reading “September 10, 2015”
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