Category Archives: The Church of What’s Happening Now

The end of Democracy is upon us.Everyone who voted for Trumpwill bear the stigma of their treasonthrough the endless night of the outer darknessfilled with weeping and gnashing of teethcarrying the rest of us there with themas witnesses and reminders,yet one with them in the communalAUM of grief and mourning,remorse and lamentationat the Wailing WallContinue reading “November 14, 2024”

Looking through my treasure-troveof photographs of natural places,I am awe-struck again at the numberof magical scenes in the worldthat are “transparent to transcendence,”enabling us to sense the presenceof more-than-words-can-say.And connect us with the meaning of lifeby being meaningful to us here, now,day in and day out.Sacred places are meaningful,though we cannot say what they mean,andContinue reading “November 13, 2024”

Jesus wasn’t a Christian.The Buddha wasn’t a Buddhist.Where did they get what they had?Right out of their own intuitionand imagination!They did not believe they were rightabout what they said.They KNEW they were right about what they said.The same goes for Lao Tzu, Confucius, Aristotle, Plato,and every other person who stands out from the massesby thinkingContinue reading “November 11, 2024”

I am every bit as good of a Christian as Jesus was,and every bit as good of a Buddhist as the Buddha was.I live to do Jesus as only I can do Jesus,and I live to do the Buddha as only I can do the Buddha.Whether they are impressed or not by my efforts doesn’tContinue reading “November 10, 2024”

I don’t believe in believing. I believe in knowing.If we only knew what we know–and knew only what we know–we would be just fine.As fine as the children Jesuswas talking about when he said,”Unless you turn and become as children,you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.”Children know what they know.And only what they know.GrowingContinue reading “November 09, 2024 – B”

I will be lost for a while, having to change my web browser and now finding my way around in the new one. Complexity disturbs the flow and disrupts life for as long as it takes to settle into knowing what we are doing, which comes in its own time, and there is no hurryingContinue reading “November 09, 2024”

1) The Japanese have a saying–wu-wei–meaning doing-without-doing,or “getting things done without trying/striving/pushing/shoving.We need a word or a phrase that means the same thingonly applied to caring.We need to care-without-caring.To give our best to what is called forin each situation,with nothing at all at stake in the outcome.We give everything with nothing to loseand nothing toContinue reading “November 08, 2024”

1) It is difficult enoughbeing who we are,doing what is ours to do,when, where and how it needs to be donewithin an environment that supportsand encourages us all along the way.Doing that work within an environmenthostile and resistant to our living like thatis to live where Jesus livedagainst forces starkly opposed toLiberty! Justice! Equality! Truth!atContinue reading “November 07, 2024”

1) 1) You and your life are meditations awaiting realization.We are only mindful awareness away from aligning ourselves with the Tao–with the flow of lifemoving through situations and circumstancesas a blessing and a graceupon us and all those who come our way.Which is all that Jesus ever did.Which is exactly what Jesus always did.”The fatherContinue reading “November 06, 2024 – B”

1) The meaningful things are meaningfulthrough all times and places.The laughter of children.The loyalty of pets.The colors of fall.The warmth a fire upon the hearth.The odor of oatmeal cranberry cookiesfresh from the oven.The music that makes our little heart singand our little toes to dance…You have your own list.Remember it well,cherish it in all timesContinue reading “November 06, 2024 – A”

1) Do what you can do and don’t worry about–or even think about–what you can’t do.Doing what we can dowith the gifts of our original nature,our innate virtues (The things we do bestand enjoy doing most),and our intrinsic intuitionabout what is called forin each situation as it ariseswill set the cosmos in its tracesand createContinue reading “November 05, 2024”