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?
Stepping into each day with little in the way of plans and agendas, conquest and triumph, hoping to see how we are seeing what we look at, and help out where we can in responding to what is happening and what is called for in each situation as it arises. Trusting ourselves to have whatContinue reading “August 11, 2023 – A”
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Dharma and Tao mean the same thing: “The way things ought to be.” Hinduism attempts to adhere to the Dharma through custom and law, imposing the ought-to-be-ness of things inorganically, corporately, from the top down and the outside in. Taoism achieves the same outcome through a “felt-sense” of balance and harmony, sincerity/integrity/grace/ spirit/energy/vitality organically, personally-individually,Continue reading “August 10, 2023 – B”
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We can only do what needs to be done with the tools we have available to us, within us, as best we can in each situation as it arises and let that be that, because there is not much time between situations. It helps to take all things with no more seriousness than they deserve,Continue reading “August 10, 2023 – A”
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How we see what we look at makes all the difference. How would we go about changing how we see what we look at? Asking, “What makes it easy for me to look at things the way I do?” might be a start. Pausing to look at how we are looking at things, might help.Continue reading “August 09, 2023 – A”
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Death is the final solution, of course, there when we need it, having run out of options, and no possibility of life on our terms ever again. What kind of life would life on someone else’s terms be? Patrick Henry nailed it with his, “Give me liberty, or give me death!” The liberty to choseContinue reading “August 08, 2023 – A”
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The only thing fascism is good for is fueling resistance to fascism. Resistance doesn’t care what its chances are– it knows what its purpose is: Liberty! Justice! Equality! Truth! Fascists are totalitarian, oppressive/repressive, despotic, absolutist, evil. Republicans are fascists saying, “Oh, my goodness, no, we are not fascists!” Do not listen to anything they say,Continue reading “August 07, 2023 – B”
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We have an adversarial relationship with our circumstances. We step into them looking for ways to turn them to our advantage, to wrest what we want from them, to make them serve us and our idea of how things ought to be. We never step into one saying, “Well, well, what have we here? WhatContinue reading “August 07, 2023 – A”
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I think all living things have similar experiences with being alive. The more conscious we are of what we are experiencing, the more alive we are– alive to the moment, to the here/now, of our experience, is to be alive to that moment. The less consciously aware we are, the less alive we are. ExperiencingContinue reading “August 06, 2023 – B”
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Emergency room personnel have it down, doing what needs to be done with whatever comes through the door. It is their business to meet all circumstances with what is called for without allowing their emotional reactions to get in the way. We would do well to train ourselves to deal with all of our circumstancesContinue reading “August 06, 2023 – A”
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I take silence seriously, and solitude, and emptiness. Everything flows from there, and leads to there, like the tide going out and coming in. I take humor seriously. Balancing opposites. Harmonizing discordances. Inner with outer, yes with no, Yin with Yang… Letting everything be what it is, as it is, because it is, and watching/seeingContinue reading “August 05, 2023 – A”
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Our circumstances are always asking/requiring/demanding something of us. We are always locked into an eternal and everlasting struggle with our circumstances, trying to impose our way on the way things are. It doesn’t have to be this way. We can be at war with our circumstances, or, we can dance with our circumstances. The choiceContinue reading “August 04, 2023 -A”
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There is what we do to earn a living, and there is what we live to do. Too many of us get earning a living down without having anything to live for, and fall into the pit of drugs, sex, alcohol, money, or some other addiction, immersing ourselves in attractive distractions, diversions, and entertaining pastimes,Continue reading “August 03, 2023 – B”
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Jim Dollar's Photography and Philosophy