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?
Nature does its thing as long as it can, and then when a species or two runs out of living room, and is no longer able to meet the cost of living, nature comes up with other players and goes on with the game– even when that means abandoning entire solar systems. Life plays outContinue reading “September 05, 2023 – A”
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What’s important? What’s happening? What’s called for? Answering these three questions correctly in each situation as it arises is all we ever need to do. Why is that so difficult? –0–
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We find our own way, taking our cues from the way life requires to be lived, playing the “Is this me or not me?” game from one choice to the next. Forced choices are not choices at all, just places where we don’t get to choose what we do about what’s happening. What to doContinue reading “September 03, 2023 – A”
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William Wordsworth nailed it with his, “The world is too much with us late and soon…” and its lament regarding our lost connection with nature and nature’s way of getting things done. “We have lost the magic,” he would say, or better perhaps, “We have traded the magic for thirty pieces of silver, or itsContinue reading “September 02, 2023 -B”
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Reading the situation as it arises without our own wants and desires, fear and anxiety getting in the way, and responding appropriately to the occasion, time after time, is all there is to it. That’s all Jesus and the Buddha, etc. ever did. Reduced to its essence, we get: See-Do. Expanded a bit it becomes:Continue reading “September 02, 2023 -A”
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Nothing is more important than finding and living aligned with the flow of our life– which means finding and living the life that is our life to live, finding and doing our thing within the circumstances of our life. My thing is hermenutics, getting to the bottom of it all, beginning with this moment, hereContinue reading “September 01, 2023 – B”
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My business is being empty, still and quiet. Being busy being empty, still and quiet. It helps to have an environment that supports emptiness, stillness, and silence. Try finding one of those on your next day off! It’s noise everywhere we go– wherever people are, noise is. Except for Quaker Meeting Houses. Even there, itContinue reading “September 01, 2023 – A”
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Sit down, be quiet, and watch what occurs to you without being engaged by it. Notice the things that keep coming up with a particular urgency about them and tend to those things. Allow yourself to respond to the urgent matters and to take care of the routine affairs of the day in their ownContinue reading “September, 2023”
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Our luck improves when we stop pushing it, and simply attend what needs our attention, doing what is called for in each situation as it arises, and relaxing into trusting our luck to be what it needs to be when we allow things to go the way they need to go. Pushing, shoving, forcing, striving,Continue reading “Fall Months, 2023”
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Two Canadian researchers writing a philosophy of health defined health as “ease of functioning.” I have expanded that definition by adding “in the service of the joy of life.” We have to be doing what brings joy to life in our life if we would be healthy. What would that be for you? For meContinue reading “August 31, 2023 – A”
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Seeking the still point at the center of the path that can only be recognized as the path in hindsight is the balance point between past and future– the here/now in each situation as it arises, through all of the circumstances of our life, the transition point between then and not yet, where we areContinue reading “August 30, 2023 – B”
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“Let your mind wander in simplicity, blend your spirit with the vastness, follow along with thing the way they are, and make no room for personal view– then the world will be at peace with you, though perhaps not with itself” — From The Complete Works of Zhuangzi (Translations from the Asian Classics by BurtonContinue reading “August 30, 2023 -A”
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Jim Dollar's Photography and Philosophy