Category Archives: The Church of What’s Happening Now

No one has ever had the solution to war/hatred/evil. Makes it easy to think no one ever will. Leaves us with wringing our hands and staring at the wall, weeping. The best among us never did any more than that. Buddhist monks self-immolation in Vietnam speaks to the futility of “nothing better to do.” FlashContinue reading “October 16, 2023 – A”

During the heresy hunts and murders, people were compelled to convert to something that can only be taken on faith. And faith cannot be forced. The core/foundation of my faith is the essential/utmost importance of doing the right thing at the right time in the right place and in the right way. I believe thatContinue reading “October 15, 2023 – A”

We all need a sounding board. A sounding board is all we need. In world of balance and harmony, we all would be our own sounding board, sitting down with ourselves on a regular basis in a dependable kind of way to talk things over and think things through in order to see what weContinue reading “October 14, 2023 – A”

My central symbol of life, of being alive, is the swamp. Swamps are vital sources of vitality, wellsprings of all the qualities of life and being. They are where life originates, and carry the realization of the Buddhist chant, “Om Mani Padme Hum” and its implication of the jewel that is in the lotus andContinue reading “October 13, 2023 – B”

Joseph Campbell said the thrust of the Bahgavad Gita is “Get in there and do your thing and let the outcome be the outcome.” We live to manipulate the outcome by doing whatever is necessary to leverage what we want into place and letting “our thing” be anything it takes to get what we desire.Continue reading “October 13, 2023 – A”

All of the philosophies of life that I am aware of assume a high enough income to meet the cost of living. I don’t know of any philosophy that makes poverty bearable, much less fun. Life starts with being able to pay the bills. Once we take care of that requirement, then we can turnContinue reading “October 12, 2023 – A”

What would it take for you to enjoy being who you are? For you to enjoy your life? What do you enjoy in a day? Make it your thing to enjoy what remains of the time left for living! Music. Friends. Art. Poetry. Nature. Food… Make your list of the enjoyable aspects of life andContinue reading “October 11, 2023 – A”

Being the right kind of people is well within our reach, yet far exceeds our grasp, as Abraham Heschel might have said. We have better things to do. Being the right kind of people gets in our way. Asks hard things of us. Is always inconvenient and an imposition of outlandish proportions. We aren’t interested.Continue reading “October 10, 2023 – A”

If we can put people on the moon, “Why can’t we just get along?” On May 1, 1992, Rodney King nailed it. And we still can’t get along. We have never gotten along. We will never get along. Why not? John the Baptist couldn’t get along with Herod. Jesus couldn’t get along with the Sanhedrin.Continue reading “October 09, 2023 – A”

Beauty is both escape and immersion. Both distraction/diversion and connection/alignment. Anything is/can be all things. Everything comes with manifold sides/aspects. Reality is a shape shifting collection of appearances/perceptions. All it takes is looking to see that it is so. How we think things are is always only how they seem to be. Wait long enoughContinue reading “October 08, 2023 – A”

Finding our work and doing it is a matter of allowing our work to come to us and not rejecting it when it does. Our work finds us, appears to us, occurs to us, calls us. If we want to “find” our work, the place to start is by digging through our pile of rejects.Continue reading “October 07, 2023 – A”

One way of assessing our Aliveness Quotient is to be accurate and honest about our degree of: Balance Harmony Integrity Sincerity Spontaneity Vitality Emptiness Stillness Silence This is a check-list for maintaining and regaining our alignment with the way of life everlasting in seeing what’s what, knowing what is called for, being right about whatContinue reading “October 06, 2023 – B”