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”
Category Archives: The Church of What’s Happening Now
Fall Months, 2024
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”
September, 2024
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”
August 31, 2024 – A
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”
August 30, 2024 – A
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”
August 29, 2024 – B
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”
August 29, 2024 – A
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”
August 28, 2024 – B
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”
August 28, 2024 – A
I do not know many peoplewho are content with doing what is called forin each situation as it arises.Everybody has an agenda.A plan.An idea of how things ought to be.They live in the serviceof what’s in it for them–of what they stand to gain or losein each situation as it arises.They have opinionsand a willContinue reading “August 28, 2024 – A”
August 27, 2024 – A
Thinking is the sourceof all of our troubles today,and every day.Our troubles disappear “like that”when we change the way we think about them.Thus, thinking is also the solutionto all of our troubles today.Changing the way we thinkchanges everything.See how many different ways you can think about the thingsyou normally think about.If you sense trouble arising,changeContinue reading “August 27, 2024 – A”
August 26, 2024 – A
There is only being who we are,doing what is ours to do,the way only we can do it.In each situation as it arises.No matter what.What’s the problem?Oh, wait! I see!Having our way–right?Getting what we want,when we want it–right?What does thinking about what we think aboutkeep us from thinking about?That’s called diversion,distraction,escape,denial.Which is where we spendContinue reading “August 26, 2024 – A”
August 25, 2024 – B
People like Donald Trumpcannot comprehend the reality of restraints, confinements and limitations.To them, money can solve any problem,and they buy/threaten/force/coerce/extortthemselves to whatever they want.Well. Money can’t buy weather.Or shutdown volcanoes.And paying our enemies to not attack ushas not worked for anyone throughout time. There is a limit as to what money can do.But limits don’tContinue reading “August 25, 2024 – B”