We cannot think up our associations.Association is not imagination.The associations we make with cigarettes, say,or pipe smoking, or alcohol, or cameras, or oceans…are ours alone to make.No one can tell us what our associations areor ought to be.Our associations speak, reveal, disclose, display the truth of who we are.What associations, if any, do you makeContinue reading “March 20, 2025 – B”
Category Archives: The Church of What’s Happening Now
March 20, 2025
Spring comes when it needs toand stays until it’s done.Spring knows its business and tends it. I wish people worked like that. And stayed out of the way until needed.
March 19, 2025
Wild things have been accommodating civilizationfrom the beginning of civilization. So we give the refuges and preserves.Until oil or goal is discovered there,and then we put up fences. Sometimes we build land “bridges” over interstate highwaysto accomodate migration routes,and sometimes not.It is not wise to get in the way of progress.And how many species areContinue reading “March 19, 2025”
March 18, 2025
There are things we need to knowand things we need to do.And things occur to us out of nowherewhen we drop into the silenceand wait for clarity and direction.I do most of my growing up being quiet.It is amazing how much I realizejust looking out the window.Joseph Campbell said he adjusted to old ageby lettingContinue reading “March 18, 2025”
March 17, 2025 – B
Reading through my old writings, I came across this gem of a dollarism:”One of the 10,000 Spiritual Laws states, ‘Our idea of God is not God.’ the Bible can be seen as the history of the evolution of the idea of God. If we read the Bible carefully, noting inconsistencies, contradictions, incompatibilities discrepancies and divergentContinue reading “March 17, 2025 – B”
March 17, 2025
I am delighted that I got my going days done when it was time for going! It is a good thing that I did not wait until now! Grocery shopping is about it these days, which leaves me with time to re-process images I took in my not-so-long-ago, and to consider how much the daysContinue reading “March 17, 2025”
March 16, 2025
I understand that astronomers are discussing a new theoryproposing that our universe is contained in a black hole that is contained in another universe. We may live in stacked universes and black holes, perhaps infinitely deep, broad, expansive. Everything we think we know has to be re-thought. Meaning we have to come to terms withContinue reading “March 16, 2025”
March 15, 2025
Drop out, drop in is the recipe for balance and harmony on the heaving waves of the wine-dark sea.Dropping out of the here, now with its noise, clamor, chaos and terminal insanity, and dropping into emptiness, stillness, silence to regroup, recharge and recover is the most brilliant strategy ever devised for reorienting ourselves, regrouping andContinue reading “March 15, 2025”
March 14, 2025
Native Americans have been experiencing atrocity, cruelty and inequity since 1492. And People of Color have been subjected to it for as long as there have been white people.Without recourse, protest, renunciation, repudiation. They just had to take it. For centuries.This is beyond redemption, recompense, amends and compensation.This is a horror we have to bearContinue reading “March 14, 2025”
March 14, 2025 – B
We disappear pain and suffering and Donald Trump by changing our mind about our relationship with all three. The way we look at things determines what we see when we look. Seeing differently changes everything we look at. We do not have to respond emotionally about anything in our environment. We ascribe meaning to everything,Continue reading “March 14, 2025 – B”
March 13, 2025 – B
What we see is how we look. This image of the Buddha free from all assumptions, inferences, projections, presuppositions, conclusions, impressions, etc., is just what it is, which is an accurate impression of the Buddha himself who was “One thus come,” like a rock on the road or a wave on the ocean — andContinue reading “March 13, 2025 – B”
March 13, 2025
We draw our lines firmly but without rancor. There are people with us herewithout good faith,and they are doing terrible damage,as Rumi knew people were doing in his day.And we have no control over those people.About them, the best I can say is thatif they could do better, perhaps they would.Be that as it may,Continue reading “March 13, 2025”
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