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?
Honoring our original nature and our innate virtues/specialties is finding our stride, our flow– the flow of life– and being sensitive to what needs to happen (And needs not to happen) in each situation as it arises, and waiting for the propitious moment when the time is right for it to happen (Or not happen),Continue reading “July 17, 2023 – A”
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Dharma is the way things are– “The eternal and inherent nature of reality”– and our place, according to Hindu and Buddhist lore, is to “allow all that obscures ‘the complete essence of everything’ to fall away, and become aware of/familiar with our own original nature.” “Our own original nature” shines through in seeing/knowing what weContinue reading “July 16, 2023 – A”
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We have what we need to find what we need to do what needs us to do it in each situation as it arises all our life long. We come out of the womb knowing how to find a nipple, knowing how to stretch and how to yawn, how to sneeze and hic-up, and fillContinue reading “July 15, 2023 – A”
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What does wanting know? What does wanting care? Wanting only works as a guide to life, through life, if it knows what it ought to want, and cares about doing it, and does it where, when and how it needs to be done reliably, dependably, regularly, relentlessly over the full course of our life. CanContinue reading “July 14, 2023 – C”
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Jesus’ most profound saying is, “The spirit is like the wind that blows where it will.” That does what needs to be done, when, where and how it needs to be done because it needs to be done for the joy of doing it and the satisfaction of having done it, in each situation asContinue reading “July 14, 2023 – B”
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We invented God as the source/reason for all that is– taking more pleasure in that than in declaring “There is no source for all that is, and no purpose to be found in any of it!” Why not, “Here we are, now what?” Why not be happy with, “There is no purpose beyond doing theContinue reading “July 14, 2023 -A”
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We have had the Hero Talk before, and we will have it again, because it is central to being centered in/grounded upon what matters most. We see what matters most reflected in our heroes. Who are your heroes, fictional and actual? It is telling, for me, that I have no actual male heroes, and noContinue reading “July 13, 2023 – A”
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The only thing that separates us is our view of what is important. If we all placed the emphasis in the same place, we would all be one— the same one. It isn’t just that we see things differently, from different points of view, from different vantage points, from different perspectives from different times andContinue reading “July 12, 2023 – A”
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My Son-in-law Lee asked an AI bot to explain the Tao to a six-year-old. Here is the reply: “Do you know what the Tao is? It is a word that means the way of nature. The way of nature is how everything in the world works together in harmony. The Tao is not something youContinue reading “July 11, 2023 – B”
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I call this “High Mountain Lake Sunset,” and see it as eternal and everlasting. I created it by playing with shapes and colors, allowing it to create itself by showing me what it wanted to be. All art forms itself that way, through a “dear and glorious communion” with some recipient of its need toContinue reading “July 11, 2023 – A”
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What kind of God is it that has to be taken on faith? That has to be believed in due to being apparently nowhere around? One who is a complete fiction created by the priests who are paid to function as intermediaries excelling in talking people into seeing what isn’t there! As a viable alternativeContinue reading “July 10, 2023 – B”
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We have to know what is holy to us, what is sacred, what we owe fealty to and honor with filial devotion, liege loyalty and unwavering allegiance. How long is your list? Mornings and evenings are holy unto me. And time. Coffee. Naps. Writing. Photography. Reading. Avoiding noise. Looking out the window. Maintaining my boundaries.Continue reading “July 10, 2023 – A”
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Jim Dollar's Photography and Philosophy