Donald Trump is an evil man. He thrives on the pain of others. And has gathered around himself a cadre of people who thrive in an environment of hatred, ruthlessness and cruelty imposed upon a wide range of people who share one trait: They are not like Donald Trump and his co-hearts. To be different, socially, racially, financially, etc. is to be despised. The Trump regime will do all it can to impose misery and suffering upon all those it despises, and they be many. Throughout history people have been hated by those who have power over them. It is our place as victims or as witnesses to the victimization of the innocents to know what’s what, what’s happening and what is called for and to take no rest nor allow the perpetrators to rest until they have met with justice and paid the full price of their appalling treatment of those who have no protection or peace.

We do not need theology! We need only to drop into the silence (Emptiness, stillness and silence are one thing, not three. Naming one of them implies the other two). We can drop into the silence anywhere, any time, and breathe three slow, deep breaths, and step back into the life we were living throughout each day, having touched base with the foundation, the Tao, the Psyche, the core of life and being, remembering what’s what and what is happening and aligning ourselves with what is called for, giving ourselves to its service all day long every day. And that simple act will make all the difference. No kidding.

We live our life in the service of having our way and getting what we want. Why not? What alternative is there? All life, every living thing, throughout the Cosmos lives to have its way and get what it wants. Flip it to not have our way and not get what we want. We would be wanting to do that, no? We are stuck. We cannot get away from living to please ourselves. The best we can do is to want what the situation calls for and do that when, where, and how it needs to be done, and to be quite content (happy) with the outcome. Wanting what needs to be wanted, doing what needs to be done, in each situation as it arises, all our life long, puts us in the eternal and everlasting position of seeing, hearing, knowing, understanding, doing the right thing at the right time in the right place and the right way, no matter what, all the time, forever. It is the Way. Let’s be up and about it!

We learn util we die because we forget what we know all along the way. The guides who lead us have to be long on patience and short on disgust to stick with us and see us through to our final breath. They have my deepest gratitude and appreciation for their work which provides the foundation of my realization that our faith has to be in ourselves, not in some loving god on high. Our help is found within, picking us up, dusting us off, saying “Don’t let it get to you, keep it up, you’re doing fine,” again and again over long years of stumbling, tripping, falling, apologizing and starting over times beyond counting. We have what we need. We only need to know it, remember it, count on it, and start over again every time we miss a turn. It isn’t as though we don’t know how to do it or have never done it before. By now, we are experts at Re-Doing, picking ourselves up and getting back in the game. No?

It matters how we live our life.
It matters how we treat one another.
Babies matter.
Children matter.
People matter.
It all matters.
What we do and leave undone.
What we love and what we hate, despise, detest matter.
And it is up to each of us to live as though it is so.
To live as though life matters.
Even though Donald Trump and his minions refuse to do so.
It is up to the rest of us to pick up their slack
and to care about the way we live upon the earth
Because it matters how we live with each other and all others.
No?

Living from the inside out is done by dropping into the silence and waiting for clarity regarding what’s what, what’s happening, what’s called for, when, where and how and taking our body’s lead from there. It is called “Getting out of our head and into our body.” Not allowing what we want/desire/fear/dread enter into the conversation. It is about having no plans beyond having no plans, having no intention beyond having no intention. Merging with the here, now to the point of being one with the here, now and waiting for an impulse to action to direct us in the service of what is called for here, now, from one here, now to the next. The natural world doesn’t wake up knowing what it is going to do today, any day. It doesn’t operate out of a social calendar or a to do list, and yet everything gets done every day. Our daily role is to see how close to that we can come, day to day.

This is from my WordPress Blog “200 More Zen Thoughts From Jim Dollar #3”

006. Different choices, different outcomes. Sounds easy. The problem is that we want particular outcomes. Servants of the Outcomes is the role we want ours to be. As though we know what is best for us. We only know what we want for us, and think that is best. “What do you want to be when you grow up?” It is all about wanting. Wanting outcomes directs our choices. Only we have no idea what outcomes would be right for us and what outcomes would be wrong for us. We are flying blind, pretending we know what we are doing. We do not know what we are doing. That should be our daily mantra repeated throughout each day. “I do not know what I am doing.” That would remind us to “Seek the light.” The light being Flow, Drift, Inclination, Psyche, Tao, Intuition. Tuning within, listening to the Inner Guide. Listening to our gut. Because we do not know what we are doing.

Seeing is a matter of proper looking, and that is a matter of imagining how many ways there are of seeing a scene. And that means being with the scene in a way that invites/allows the scene to reveal itself beyond its initial impact. It means being with the scene in the right kind of way. Which means taking a time with a scene, absorbing the scene, being here, now with the scene. And not being in a hurry. All of which are functions of being where we are throughout our life. Making being alive the art of seeing, hearing, knowing, understanding…

Our place in each day is not to impose our will, wants, wishes upon the day, but to align ourselves with the drift and flow of the day, doing what we can to aid and abet the day with its needs and interests. The question is not, “How can we be happy today?” but, “How can we be helpful today?” Not, “What can we get?” but, “What is called for here, now throughout each day.” We are here to do what is called for with our skill set, our talents, our knacks and abilities–for the joy of doing it and the satisfaction of having done it. In each situation as it arises, all our life long.

Jesus came to tell us that nobody goes to hell, that everyone realizes the truth eventually and bears the pain of having taken so long to wake up to all things being the way they ought to be finally, at last, forever. The Prodigal’s father is the way God is. Drop into the silence and meet what meets you there and, and you will know that it is so. What kind of world would it be if it were not?

Being in a lot of the right places has put me in a right place, and made it easy for me to return there on a regular basis. It is a natural wonder how being in the presence of nature balances us, harmonizes us, stabilizes us and puts us back together again in a “this is how it is when we are at one with who we are and, as the Buddha said, “Peacefully abiding, here, now.”

The way of “peaceful abiding, here, now,” is the most natural way to be–and it is anywhere the natural world opens itself to receive us and we open to receive it back. It is a good move to seek out those places and frequent them often, just to say hello, again and wander and sit for a while. Being balanced, harmonized, stabilized by peaceful abiding, here, now, again.