This also exists as 57 of my WordPress Blog, “200 More Zen Thoughts From Jim Dollar #1” I heard the owl call my name: Who? Who? Who are you? What are you about? What is called for here, now? What will you do about it? How can you be sure that is what needs toContinue reading “December 30, 2025”
Category Archives: The Church of What’s Happening Now
December 29, 2025
Removing the diversions/distractions of cars and houses brings for the wonder of light and shadow. I enjoy walking with a camera through the world as it is without the additions of civilization intruding, neverminding and overlooking the additions of my cellphone camera, my coat and my shoes. Which brings up the matter of contradiction, opposition,Continue reading “December 29, 2025”
December 28, 2025 – B
This is a link to Ann Telnaes’ work deserving worldwide viewing forever with gratitude and appreciation, devotion and thanksgiving: https://anntelnaes.substack.com/archive?sort=top
December 28, 2025
How we see is a function of how we look, is a reflection of who we are, and a mirror of our soul. Soul is our deepest, truest self, carrying our values and our cherished ways of being in the world and expressing the truth of what we honor most. This photograph and all thoseContinue reading “December 28, 2025”
December 27, 2027
Having done it is it. No one living–no living thing–has done it without having toughed it out somewhere, if not all the way, along the way, and they get style points for having toughed it out with style and with grace and with Pizzazz along the way. Style points are icing on the cake. TheyContinue reading “December 27, 2027”
December 26, 2025
This is #40 of “200 More Zen Thoughts From Jim Dollar #1” blog on WordPress: In the New Testament, we get to pick our God, and there is a wide variety from which to choose. I’m going with the God who is like the prodigal son’s father: “You were lost and now you are found!Continue reading “December 26, 2025”
December 25, 2025
The Buddha under the Bodhi Tree is Jesus in Gethsemane and on Golgotha.And Dylan Thomas writing as his father lay dying, “Do not go gentle into that good night! Rage! Rage! Against the dying of the light!” The last one alive is still dying. The work remains the same: Rage! Rage! Against the dying ofContinue reading “December 25, 2025”
December 24, 2025
Swamp grass has nothing to do with Christmas Eve, and Christmas Eve has nothing to do with the war in Ukraine, or with why we all can’t just get along. Or why we all can’t be billionaires. Not that we could get along if we were. What’s the key to getting along? Growing up mayContinue reading “December 24, 2025”
December 23, 2025
We experience That Which Has Always Been Called God all of the time without acknowledging what’s what, what’s happening, what’s going on. It’s time to Tune In, Turn On, Wake Up And Get With the Program in an “Oh, THERE You Are, Peter” kind of way. We are looking for experiences with flow, synchronicity, coincidence,Continue reading “December 23, 2025”
December 22, 2025
The old Taoists sensed the Tao was/is an elementary aspect of existence, always here like time itself, and psyche. Three concepts with a timelessness about them. Time itself being timeless in the sense of being here/there always and forever, like the Tao, like Psyche, elements of being that “just are” in an always have beenContinue reading “December 22, 2025”
December 21 – B, 2025
This is #22 of “200 More Zen Thoughts From Jim Dollar #1” on my WordPress Blog: We are capable of realizing/recognizing the Buddha in the Buddha and the Christ in the Christ. If we can realize/recognize it in them we can realize/recognize it in ourselves if we would but get out of our way andContinue reading “December 21 – B, 2025”
December 21, 2025
In two weeks I will step into my 82nd year, with no health problems to speak of. I hope I have twenty more years with no health problems to speak of. With Psyche/Tao to work on, I will have plenty to be interested in, so maintaining a healthy body/mind relationship over a twenty year periodContinue reading “December 21, 2025”
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