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 are better off in some places than we are in others.It’s good to know where those places areand spend time therein a regular and reoccurring way. The same thing goes with people.There is good companyand not so good company.Why waste timewhere it is a waste of timeto be?My spirits are lifted among the treesandContinue reading “March 28, 2024 – A”
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Training ourselves (Our egos)to recognize,develop,strengthenand serve our intuitionis our work to doover what remains of our time left for living.Making our intuition our focusfor the rest of our lifewill transform our life,boost our energy level,cause our little heart to singand our little toes to dance,and people will wonderwhat is going on with us.I recommend winkingContinue reading “March 27, 2024 – A”
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Bodhisattvas make the world a better placeby virtue of their being in the worldin service to their habitual intuition,and honoring their original naturewhile sharing the things they do bestand love/enjoy doing most.What is so hard about that?Anybody could do that!So why not?Starting now?Are you in? –0–
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Time goes by,and we make of itwhat we will.We do with it,what we will.What means the most to you,what you have done,are doing,with the time that is,and has been, yours?My reflections and realizationsover timecontinue to be my most meaningful ways of passing the time.My conversations and inquiries.My listening and looking.Hearing and seeing.Reading and writing.Music andContinue reading “March 25, 2024 – A”
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Being here/now and waitingfor a situation to arisethat needs what we have to offerin the way of the gifts we are here to share–of our original natureand the innate virtuositiesthat define us and set us apart(The things we do bestand love to do most)–leaves us with nothing better to dothan attending the moment of ourContinue reading “March 24, 2024 – A”
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Enlightenment/Intuition/Awareness is in-tune-ment,alignment,with the way of being in the worldthat is grounded in/founded uponemptiness, stillness, silenceand the knowing that comeswith seeing/hearing/understandingwhat is importantin each situation as it arises,perceives what is happeningand what is called for in response,and rises to meet the occasionout of the gifts of our original natureand the innate virtuosities–what we do bestContinue reading “March 23, 2024 – A”
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We spend a lot of time between some things,and no time at all between other things,like everything else in the natural world.Dogs and cats (etc.) lie around,stretching and yawning and going back to sleep,waiting for getting up and going time to arrive.And everyone who has been thereknows what “Island Time” means,and if we stay thereContinue reading “March 22, 2024 – A”
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Beneath the Bodhi Treethe Buddha reached a state of beingbeyond Fear, Desire, and Duty,and was unmoved by anythingthat appeared before him,and available to everythingas being on equal footing to him.Degree of importance disappeared.Preference no longer existed.Bias and prejudice,racism and sexism,were nowhere to be found.The Buddha was “as one thus come.”As one just born.With no opinions,Continue reading “March 21, 2024 – A”
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We grow up quite at the mercyof our own perspective/perceptions.How we look determines–or strongly influences–what we see,and what we see determines–or strongly influences–what we do in responsethroughout the entire course of our life.If we would only look at our seeing,at the way we see what we look at,with an investigative mind,asking the questions that begContinue reading “March 20, 2024 – A”
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Kara Lawson’s “Handle Hard Better”YouTube speech was an instant hitbecause we all knew itbut hadn’t put it togetherthe way she did.Her saying it enabled us to recognize itas an “Aha! Moment,”because we already knew itand did not have to be talked into it,or have it explained to us.We knew it instantly, because we all hadContinue reading “March 19, 2024 – A”
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Nature at its best. Nature is always at its best.The way nature is is the best nature can be. Not so with civilization.Civilization is rarely–is NEVER–at its best.Sunrise at the Tetons for the natural worldis much the same over time.The seasons change, but not much else.And everything in this photographdoes pretty much what it doesContinue reading “March 18, 2024 – A”
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What chain of associationscan you create from this photograph?Spend some timeseeing what comes to mindas you consider the image.Try for 3 to 5 links.Then bring your present state of beinginto your consciousness.Ask yourself what the linksthat came to mind regarding the photomight bring to bear on your present state of being.What do they have togetherthatContinue reading “March 17, 2024 – A”
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Jim Dollar's Photography and Philosophy