Category Archives: The Church of What’s Happening Now

01 The most important thing to be right about is what response is called for here/now? The most important thing to do is the response that is called for. Moment by moment, in each situation as it arises. Jesus and the Buddha together could not do better than that. –0– 02 People want their circumstancesContinue reading “June 04, 2022”

01 No expectation. No agenda. No opinion. Just seeing and doing what needs to be done about it. Whatever “it” may be. Go about your day like this, and note the difference it makes on you as you do it. Why live any other way? What does living any other way produce what you seeContinue reading “June 01, 2022”

01 What is your philosophy of health? How healthy are you on a scale of 1-10? What practices do you follow in the service of a healthy life style? I recommend a 12-hour fast every day, from the last calorie you consume in the evening, to the first calorie you consume in the morning. IContinue reading “May 28, 2022”

01 Joseph Campbell said, “The influence of a vital person vitalizes.” “The way to save the world is to bring it to life, and the way to do that is to find in you own case what brings you to life, and to do that– to be alive yourself.” How alive are you? How longContinue reading “May 26-B, 2022”

Originally posted on Jim Dollar's Photography and Philosophy:
01 Angel Oak 06 11/04/2013 Oil Paint Rendered — Angel Oak Park, Johns Island, South Carolina We are here to make the best of it. To bring our best forth to meet it– to meet what meets us in each situation as it arises, without caring…

Originally posted on Barbara Crane Navarro:
Yanomami child playing in the river (before the invasion of gold miners)??photo: Barbara Crane Navarro «?My grandparents fished to feed the community in this river. Now it’s just sludge, gasoline, diesel and mercury contamination. Fish die and our Yanomami land is dying.? We Yanomami suffer, we don’t have peace.…

01 We are here to make the best of it. To bring our best forth to meet it– to meet what meets us in each situation as it arises, without caring what our chances are. How we meet the moment is the only thing that matters. If the moment walks all over us and leavesContinue reading “May 25, 2022”

01 Friedrich Nietzsche said the goal of maturity is to live as one who is directed from within, “like a wheel rolling out of its own center” (Joseph Campbell). I prefer the metaphor of a gyroscope turning out of its own center, maintaining its own balance and harmony amid the chaos and upheaval of itsContinue reading “May 23, 2022”

01 The world is as we make it out to be and we cannot get beyond our idea of how things are to how things actually are. We don’t know how things actually are. How they appear to be is as close as we can get. This plays nicely with: No expectations! No agenda! NoContinue reading “May 19-C, 2022”

01 No expectations. No agendas. No opinions. These are the Three Adjustments enabling us to just see what the circumstances call for– to just see what needs to be done– in each situation as it arises and do it when, where and how it needs to be done, with the virtues that are ours fromContinue reading “May 19, 2022”

01 We have to live with the life we have lived, measured by the degree of sincerity and integrity we brought to life in the way we lived. By the degree of balance and harmony we enabled. By the amount of spirit, energy and vitality we exhibited and enabled in the people around us. ByContinue reading “May 16, 2022”