Category Archives: The Church of What’s Happening Now

We need a consultation with ourselveson a regular basisin order to maintain our balance and harmony,our direction and flow,and our life line with our intuition,original nature,innate virtues (The things we do bestand enjoy doing most),and our inherent imagination.How often do you do what you love to do?When is the last time you did it?Regular consultationsContinue reading “January 29, 2025”

We walk through death and dying all the time.We should be accustomed to it by now.We should be paying homage to it every day.We should honor the sacred scenesbeing enacted all around us.Life is sacred!Death is at the door!Do not miss the holy moments as they come upon us!Pause with the acknowledgment of gratitude andContinue reading “January 28, 2025”

The natural world just happens according to the rhythms and circumstancesof nature,with everything settling into its rolecommensurate with its needs and its possibilities.The “civilized” world is prone to war,revenge, revolt, renunciation, repudiation,getting even, paying back, making sorryand being in control.The foundation and thrust of Taoism/Zen(Zen is Taoism with appreciation for enlightenment)is the return to doingContinue reading “January 27, 2025”

I retired after forty years and six months in the ministry(And that was nearly fifteen years ago.)My thing was and is hermeneutics.I’m still going at it.You can’t retire from your thing.You can’t quit.No vacations.No escape.It’s wonderful.We are here to do our thing.Do you know what I’m saying?I’m saying, “Find your thingand serve it with yourContinue reading “January 26, 2025 – B”

What would it takefor Donald Trump to be happy?His chronic dissatisfaction and his propensity for findingscapegoats everywherekeeps everything up in the airwith nowhere to land.Everything is somebody’s fault.And Trump is going to make them pay.His fans adore him because The Trump Showtakes their minds off their own malaise–and their inescapable ultimate realizationthat their life isContinue reading “January 26, 2025”

The values at the heart of Democracyhave to be worthy of Democracyor it’s just another Autocracypretending it isn’t,fooling no one.Why pretend?

Authenticity is spontaneous,unintentional,automatic,from the heart,”as one thus come,”like a baby pooping in the bath tub,or a cat playing with a ball.Live not-thinking,just responding to the here, now,doing what is called forunconscious of anythingother than doing what is called for.Be what is needed in the moment,at one with the moment,moment after moment,unaware of anything beyond theContinue reading “January 23, 2025”

We ground ourselves,orient ourselves,recover our balance and harmonyby dropping into emptiness, stillness, silenceand waiting for clarity regarding what’s whathere, now,what is called forand how we need to respond to itout of our original nature,innate virtues (What we do bestand enjoy doing most),inherent imaginationand intrinsic intuition.Then, it is only a matter of standing up,meeting what needsContinue reading “January 22, 2025”

The following sequence of five guys intuitively,spontaneously merging as one in doing the right thing,at the right time, in the right place, in the right wayis a remarkable capture of the Tao in action, in the momentof its unfolding, and it is “just what it is” as “one thus come,” “here, now.” The perfect responseContinue reading “January 20, 2025 – B”

Who are we? What are we (to be) about?Emptiness, stillness, and silence(One thing, not three)is where we go for the answers.Native Americans called it “A Vision Quest.”We sit in the silencewaiting to see, hear, understandwhat is to be knownso that we might arise and be/dowhat is ours to be and to do.Who do we needContinue reading “January 20, 2025”