Jim Dollar's Photography and Philosophy
Finding our way to The Way one situation at a time. I don't know how great it will be, but I expect it will be interesting, and I look forward to it going on past all reason because wonder is just that way. Are you coming or not?
We know where we belongand where we have no business being.We know what is “us,”and what is not “us.”We know what is so about “us,”and what is not “us.”With no idea of how we know,beyond knowing that no one told usany of it.Yet we read “self-help” booksby the gazillion,hire “life coaches,”join the congregations of gurus,seekContinue reading “September 04, 2024 – A”
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Acceptance is not saying yes to all things–it is accepting the responsibility of saying no to what needs to be met with no.Like the Buddha met suffering, and posited the 4 Noble Truths, emphasizing NO SUFFERING!!! Equanimity is not being fine with everything. It is being fine with doing what needs to be done inContinue reading “September 03, 2024 – B”
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We must be strongin the service of our intrinsic intuition!So that our “yes” is “YES!”and” our “no” is “NO!”There is no middle ground–no middle way–between us and our intuition.We are at one with,aligned with,in accord withour intrinsic intuitionall the way!We live to honor our intuitionwith fealty,liege loyalty,filial devotionin every situation as it arises,no matter what,allContinue reading “September 03, 2024 – A”
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We cannot think our way out of where we areto some other, better, place instead.All of our problems stem from the way we handleour other problems.Growing up is the solution to all of our problems today,yet, all of our “solutions”are built around not having to grow-up ever.We want things to changewithout being different.Or, to beContinue reading “September 02, 2024 – A”
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We are our own authority. It only takes assuming the roleto know that it fits us perfectly.What WE say goesas far as what we do and leave undone goes.WE say what matters,what is important,what needs to be done where, when, and how.WE chose the clothes we wearand what’s for luncheveryday.And we know by listening toContinue reading “September 01, 2024 – A”
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Haiku is a Japanese poetry formthat consists of three linesand seventeen syllables,five on the first and third lines,and seven on the middle line.Traditionally, it would be about some aspectof the natural world,and would typically express/reflectone of the four seasons of the year.My fave is by Ryusui:A lost child cryingstumbling over the dark fields…pursuing firefliesThe trickContinue reading “Fall Months, 2024”
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Who/what serves as the supreme authority in your life?Who/what do you live to serve,make/keep happy with you?Whose happiness with you constitutes the sole purpose of your life?Who/what do you live to please?Who/what do you strive to please/serve every day?The question of authority is the central question.Get to the bottom of it.Why do you think theContinue reading “September, 2024”
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There is seeingand there is projection,delusion,illusion,(Where does that line lie?),deception,impression,perception/misperception(Where does that line lie?),gas lighting,propaganda,lying,…to the point of knowing/notknowing(Where does that line lie?)and how do we know we are seeingwhat we are looking atand how much more is thereto what we apprehend/comprehendthan we imagine?Did someone say “imagine”?I was just thinking about that.How do we knowContinue reading “August 31, 2024 – A”
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Did someone leave it hereand walk away?Did it drift in pushedby some long forgotten hurricane?I want to know all of the stories!Of every thing, every animal,every personthat ever has been and will be.That’s what I’m going to spend heaven doing.Forget angelic choirs,praise and glory.I’m bored just writing the words.I want to know the stories!If thereContinue reading “August 30, 2024 – A”
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Life is an optical illusion.We live with a foot in different worlds,on different paths.It is like this and that at the same time.The Buddhists like to say, “All is one.”Everyone else knows it is anything BUT one.The Buddhists even admit itwith their, “If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him.”There is “the Buddha”Continue reading “August 29, 2024 – B”
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All we need is a sounding board.We all need a sounding board.Someone who can hear what we have to sayand encourage us to keep talking until WE hear what we have to say.When WE hear what we have to say,it changes everything.So. We can write it out, as I do here,to you who are servingContinue reading “August 29, 2024 – A”
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Wisdom is merelya life-time from birth to deathof experience and reflectionto the point of realizationapplied to here/now choicesand decisions.What experience isand what it meansin light of previous experienceapplied to present experience–including the cumulative exprienceof the species–is wisdomat work in our life.And it depends on the right kind of reflective useof emptiness, stillness and silence.It isContinue reading “August 28, 2024 – B”
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Jim Dollar's Photography and Philosophy