Category Archives: The Church of What’s Happening Now

I remind us of this a couple of times a year.Here it comes again:It’s all useless, pointless, hopeless,meaningless,stupid and absurd–and coming to a very bad end:We all are going to die!And, we can’t let that stop us,or even slow us down!Because in the meantimewe have work to be done!We have to show them what itContinue reading “April 13, 2024 – B”

You know how the way things are? Putin destroying Ukraine while we watch.Much like Hitler destroyed Europe,and Alexander the Great destroyed the known world.And how what’s going onhas been going on from the beginning.And is going to be going onlong after we have stopped going at all. Well, there is nothing we can do aboutContinue reading “April 13, 2024 – A”

We can’t help how we see things,but.We are responsible for how we see things.Which means, of course,that we can help how we see things.It starts with seeing how we see things.Seeing our seeing is the most important thing to see.The second most important thing to seeis seeing that how we see things IS NOT HOWContinue reading “April 12, 2024 – B”

Our response strongly influenceswhat happens next.We shape the futureby the way we respond to the present.There is typically more at stake in any momentthan getting our way in the moment.Imagining likely scenarios and practicing our response to each oneprovides us with the experienceof having worked our way throughpractice rounds before we go live.I practice fendingContinue reading “April 12, 2024 – A”

The Buddhist concept of “Bodhisattvas” beautifully flips the Nirvana/Pure Land,Heaven/Hell narrativeby positing a shift in perspectivethat sees the world as it is,not as a place of sufferingand meaningless wandering,with death as a hoped-for escape from “the everlasting roundof grief, loss and sorrow,”but as a place of unending opportunityto practice the art of healing/helpful presence,by returning–notContinue reading “April 11, 2024 – B”

You remember Tevya,the superman,Jesus,heroof The Fiddler on the Roof,coming down the gangplank of the steamship that deliveredhim and Golda, his wife,to the hovels and pollutionof New York City–without his horse and his cow,and his TRADITION!To make his way in a new world.He does that–WE do that–by walking two paths at the same time.The path ofContinue reading “April 11, 2024 – A”

There are people who do not examine their assumptions,question their convictions,or inspect what they have heard is so.Thinking about their thinking,and seeing there seeing,and listening to what they are saying,and to what is being said to them,are not skills they have developed along the way.Yet they get a vote like they knowwhat they are doing.HOWContinue reading “April 10, 2024 – A”

What are we living for?What are we trying to get,to have,to do,to be?The right answeris living to be alignedwith our original natureand in accord with our innate virtuosities–the things we do bestand love/enjoy doing the most.We are assisted in this by our intuition,by our body’s felt senseby our nighttime dreamsby our ability to attend ourContinue reading “April 09, 2024 – A”

There is griefand there is gloryalong the way that is the way, and we can’t be in itfor what we get out of it.We have to be in itwithout caring about outcomes,or what our chances are.We live to serveintegrity,sincerityspontaneity–doing what is called forin the moment that is upon usin each situation as it arises,and lettingContinue reading “April 08, 2024 – A”

Of all the ideasthat I am aware offloating aroundabout the afterlife, the one that I am most enthralled by/attracted tois the Buddhist formulationof the Bodhisattva,a person who has attained Nirvanabut opts out of the rewardfor living the right kind of lifein order to return to an ordinaryexistence in this worldand living to make things betterContinue reading “April 07, 2024 – A”

There are no strategies for gaming the game.There are only serendipity,synchronicity,and fortuity–all put into playin the old golfing mantra,”The more I practice, the luckier I get.”In place of “practice”we might say,”The more I put myself in the service of my intuition, the luckier I get.”Intuition and the felt sense(Or the “gut feeling”)are our inner guideswhichContinue reading “April 06, 2024 – A”

Here is a TED talk whose theme is “Habitual Intuition All The Way!” And, Alan Watts’ observation that “People who are habitually intuitive are thought of as being lucky by everyone who knows them or hears about them.” It would be wrong of you to not watch it.