Babies are not trying to be anything–they are simply being who they are. Why/when do we stop that and start trying to be who we aren’t? And then spend our old age becoming who we were. Enjoying what we enjoy, doing what needs to be done, here, now, without worrying about why, just knowing that. Who is the knower who knows in the baby and in the old person? Who is always there within everyone? Who is the source and foundation of who we always have been and always will be?

The Life Journey is from intuition to intellect to intuition. It could be called, “The Return To Intuition.” To knowing what we know. And trusting ourselves to it. Not for any gain, advantage, reward beyond knowing what we know and being who we are. That is the life journey. “And we will not cease our exploration until we have arrived at where we started and know it for the first time” (T.S. Eliot, Little Gidding).

We are the Knower. If we live long enough, we will discover that we have always been the God at the bottom of it all, the source of it all, only us waking up to being who we are, being what we are about, all the time living out of our own intuition, out of our own knowing, out of our own intelligence, waking up finally, at last, to the realization that there is no one here but us. Never has been. Never will be. We are the God we seek and serve. It is only us. Only ourselves. And has been from the very beginning through all of the ages until right here, right now.

“The outcome is not the outcome.” There is no point at which “the outcome” can be officially declared. Outcomes spin out and on forever like the circles created by a rock thrown into a still pond. There are no final outcomes–they just keep coming.

The old Taoists said, “Circumstances begetting circumstances is all there is.” Outcomes produce circumstances producing more outcomes and more circumstances forever. Why take anything personally, as the final word about anything? We maintain our balance and harmony by finding the right ratio here, now, between too close and too distant, between caring too much and caring too little. The dance of life and being.

Seeing requires no attachment, no judgement, no evaluation. It is all tentative, temporary. This is the way are for now and things are always changing. How can we keep score? When we respond emotionally to what is now. When we see with eyes that see, we also see our seeing, which changes how we look and what we see.

Our practice is seeing what we look at which includes how we look at what we see, and knowing what is called for here, now with our intrinsic, habitual, intuition–and following that with more of the same forever. Keeping troth with ourselves, our art through “circumstances begetting circumstances” forever. Doing “our thing” in ways appropriate to the occasion throughout time.

The idea of action “arising directly out of not-knowing” posits intuition as the source of life in the flow of life and being–being what needs to be here, now, without intention, agenda, will, desire, attachment to outcome and no interest in profit or gain. Just doing what is called for here, now because it is called for in each situation as it arises, no matter what, all our life long. This is all there is to it. Just relax into it, seeing, hearing, knowing flowing into doing and being and dancing with the circumstances of our existence day by day forever. This is not difficult. It is just not done. Why is it just not done? Starting with us. Right here, Right now?

If you haven’t done so yet, you might do an internet search for my name, Jim Dollar, and start reading from another source than this one.

Today is my 82nd April 4. And I am increasingly curious about my end of life possibilities. How many more April 4ths remain? What will I do with the time from now to then? What will be The Event that will be the turning point between life as it has been to life as it will be until my last breath? What will matter to me during however many days remain? How many realizations are left to me? I think that is my greatest curiosity. How many realizations remain?

Realization is my greatest pleasure. I fish for them with questions. Making inquiries is what I do best. How many more questions can I generate through all of the days left to live? I am driven by inquiry. What remains to wonder about? What needs to be known? I love the idea of the prospect of remaining quiet and alert to all of the questions I have yet to ask. What will pique my interest today? Through all of the days left to be lived. I hope you will be with me all along the way!

I invite you to join me in thinking of dying not as dead and gone, but as a transition state where energy, which can neither be created or destroyed, is being transformed or converted, and we are all, at that point in our life, moving on. And we won’t be gone, necessarily, but moving on to the next transition point. And we all will be transitioning throughout forever. I hope you will also join me in looking forward to it.

Doing what needs to be done, when, where and how it needs to be done takes precedent over every other thing. If the entire world worked together in putting this into effect, the entire world would be a better place to live, like that, he said, snapping his fingers. And, if we act to enact it in our lives individually, it will improve our life like that, he said, snapping his fingers again.

There is trying to please someone and there is simply being who we are. There is striving to have/get what we want, and there is simply being who we are, letting come what comes and letting go what goes.

There is nothing more important than being who we are, doing what we need to do to be true to ourselves with sincerity, integrity and authenticity, when, where and how we need to do it in just being who we are here, now–not trying to serve our advantage or win the grand prize. The prize is to do it like we would do it. To be ourselves enjoying ourselves regardless of the outcome. How long since we lived like that?

What do the cypress trees get out of being cypress trees? Yet, what could be more wonderful than this scene of cypress trees doing their thing for absolutely nothing more than the joy of being cypress trees in the early morning light? What could they do that would be better than this?

Become a cypress tree. Let the world stop and be blessed by the blessing if it wants to.

God is not a spiritual being. “God” is the name bestowed upon a psychological process that is experienced/known by every living thing. This process is also known as “Psyche,” “Tao,” “Flow,” “Intuition,” “Atman,” “Brahman,” Etc., and is experienced as Presence, Intuition, Guide, Director, Peace, Aid, Etc. “God,” “Psyche,” et al, are just alternative ways of thinking about spiritual experiences. And are where we tend to turn in time of trouble, where go to be comforted, guided, directed, encouraged, reassured, etc. They are where we go for comfort and consolation, balance and harmony. To be stabilized, made fit for what is being asked of us and returned to action.

God, Psyche, Tao, etc., is/are as close as emptiness, stillness, silence (One thing, not three), and are the source of all of our insight, realization, enlightenment, awareness, understanding, comprehension, knowing, grasping, getting it, “being born again,” etc.

I do not know why this is not explained to us early on in our life. It would likely make quite a difference for the better on all levels.