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?
No pushing, no shoving, no forcing, no striving, no pretending that we know the way! Wanting something to happen has nothing to do with what needs to happen.
Stop. Look. Listen.
Give intuition a chance.
Assume intuition is our connection with what is called for and needs to happen in each situation as it arises, and give way, stand aside, give intuition the ball and let her show you what she can do.
Start with what you are going to wear each day. Allow your intuition to make the choice. Look over your options and see what calls your name.
Do the same thing with where to go for lunch, and what to order.
Practice letting intuition take the lead. Be sensitive to intuition's play calling in circumstances as they develop and see how she does-- and if she has a preference for "the gender thing."
Road to Botany Bay — Botany Bay Historical Preserve and Wildlife Refuge, Edisto Island, South Carolina If you haven’t been there, you are running out of time!
The following is being republished here from my co-Wordpress site “From Twitter to Here” because it is worth reading twice at least.
Science knows the world is not divided into spheres of physical/material and spiritual/numinous, but that the world is a three layer cake after all, with the third layer being Psychoid Reality outside both physical and spiritual, binding them together, and bringing aspects of each together in both, so that imprinting happens in birds and cannot be explained in any way other than "There is more going on here than meets the eye." And, the deeper we go into the physical, the more spiritual/numinous it becomes.
The experiences we all have with what we call "Intuition" are all experiences with the "WooHoo, WooHoo." Intuition is an area of life experience with numinous reality. What we call "psyche" exists exactly where? Etc.
The physical and the metaphysical merge to the point of not knowing where one ends and the other begins. And it is time that we started knowing what we know and changing the way we live to take all that we know into account.
Bridge From Rough Ridge 10/02/2018 — Blue Ridge Parkway, Blowing Rock, North Carolina
We are always coming from, going to, somewhere. What bridges the gap for us, here, now? Where have we been? Where are we going? We are transitioning from where to where?
I'm waiting in the silence between realizations, watching for what arises, emerges, appears to point the way. The future is unfolding according to its own good pleasure. Pushing and shoving only muddies the water and conceals the way. Waiting is the bridge for many of us these days. Time will tell. For now,there is recovery and restoration, and meeting the day as the day needs to be met.
US Luna Eclipse January 21, 2019 — Indian Land, South Carolina
How do we keep ourselves from interfering with our life? What is interference and what is assistance? What is in the way and what is out of the way? These would be my nominees for things worth knowing.
And no one can tell us because no one knows. But. A world of people think they do.
Bass Lake Idyll 08/06/2018 — Moses H. Cone Memorial Park, Blue Ridge Parkway, Blowing Rock, North Carolina
There is projection and there is association, and they may be the same thing. One thing I project onto this image is that Donald Trump would not find anything attractive about it. My projection is that he would hate it. It is not his kind of place. My projection is that he is attracted to disturbance, conflict, chaos which he creates as a way of controlling the action and being in charge. If he can stir things up and be at the center of the brouhaha, he is in his element. Anything leaning toward peace, serenity, contentment, tranquility is against everything he stands for. All of this is a projection that I formulated as I wrote this. I associate this interpretation/projection with my experience of Donald Trump. And I have no idea where the lines lie between projection, association, interpretation, experience Which is to say that I can only experience what I interpret/project/associate with past experiences. None of this says anything about Donald Trump, and says everything about my idea of, my understanding of, my view of, Donald Trump.
We understand ourselves when we experience ourselves talking about our experiences with other people/things/places/ideas/etc. Everything we say about anything is our projection/association/ interpretation of the person/place/thing. What we have to say about anything is a mirror reflecting ourselves to us as we speak/write and examine what we say in order to understand that what we say is about who we are and how we see what we look at. Everything we say says more about us than about who/what/where we are talking about.
And doing so in relation to a scene like the one above enables us to examine ourselves in the presence of tranquility, serenity and peace, calming ourselves as we disturb ourselves and come to terms with who and how we are in order to simply recognize the truth of ourselves without implying that we are bad, shameful, evil or worthless. We experience who we are and can then explore how we came to be as we are and what that might mean for how we carry and conduct ourselves in the future, and who and how we may be throughout the time left for living.
I see my projections/associations as being accurate assessments of Donald Trump as they are accurate reflections of my interpretation of Donald Trump, and do not intend to change the way I see/think/feel about him until he begins to change his behavior and attitude in relation to people and events currently and in the future.
Hitching Post — The Carriage House at Moses H. Cone Manor, Blue Ridge Parkway, Blowing Rock, North Carolina
Living will take the life right out of you. If you live with your eyes open, taking things in, seeing what you look at, knowing what you know.
If you pay attention, you are going to need a place to recover, regain your balance, restore your harmony, seek consolation and courage for the future.
Emptiness, stillness and silence are my very present help in time of trouble.
Emptiness is the emptiness between breaths.
Inhale for a count of five, exhale for a count of five, for a round of five, on the sixth exhale, hold your breath for a count of ten.
The emptiness you seek is what you experience counting to ten.
Repeating this exercise several times a day will send you into emptiness simply by breathing in for a count of ten after a day or two.
I call this "Dropping into emptiness, stillness, silence." Stay there for ten to twenty minutes, two or three times a day and you will be able to drop into emptiness, etc. whenever you need to wherever you are.
You can use the silence as an opportunity to open yourself to clarity about what is called for with the gifts of your original nature, your innate virtues (What you do best and enjoy doing most), your inherent imagination, and your intrinsic intuition, in rising to do what is called for in the here, now at hand, and meeting life head on with the best you have to offer from here on out.
Swan Lake 07/09/2019 — Swan Lake, Iris Gardens, Sumter, South Carolina
We do what is called for in each situation as it arises and drop into emptiness, stillness, silence between innings waiting for clarity, watching for what arises, emerges, appears to catch our eye and compel us to action in the service of our original nature, our innate virtues (What we do best and enjoy doing most), our inherent imagination and our intrinsic intuition. Catching the rhythm and flow of time and place, here and now, to live and to do in sync with the need of the moment and what we have to offer in the eternal dance of life and being.
Swan Lake 05 — 07/11/2019 — Swan Lake, Iris Gardens, Sumter, South Carolina
Knowing what's what, what's happening, and what's called for, and doing it when, where, and how it is called for, in each situation as it arises, is all Jesus and the Buddha ever did.
No one can do more than that!
And the path to doing that is the path of emptiness, stillness, silence, and waiting for clarity, or enlightenment, realization, awareness, and allowing our intuitive impulse to action to spontaneously respond appropriately to the situation at hand, seeing, hearing, knowing, doing as it always does in fitting with kindness and common courtesy throughout social situations worldwide.
Katahdin Range — Sandy Stream Pond, Baxter State Park, Millinocket Maine
This scene is crammed with insects, snakes, leeches, mammals and ultraviolet rays that could make our life a living hell in no time at all. The stuff we overlook, dismiss, discount, ignore in making our judgments and forming our opinions about what we see is never taken into account when we decide how we feel about a place. We don't see more than we do see regarding everything we look at. And we know that but we refuse to think about it. We do not acknowledge it, and blithely stride through each day. We live unaware of the time and place of our living every moment all the time. It is a wonder that we get along as well as we do.
We ignore what we don't want to know. Here's what we do about that: Spend 20 minutes a day in emptiness, stillness, silence and see what comes calling. Do not shut yourself off from any of it. Simply see it and welcome it into your life. Let your life take it from there. Trust your intuition to override your fear/desire in making the adjustments that take your Also Life into account. And see where it goes.
I Went Down To The River To Pray — Steele Creek, Anne Springs Close Greenway, Fort Mill, South Carolina
The intuitive guides are reliable standards of faith and practice. We only have to be tuned into what is present with us throughout the days of our lives.
Resonance/resonation are "Yes!" Enthusiasm/vitality/energy/exuberance are "Yes!"
repulsive/revolting/disgusting/obnoxious are "No!" disquieting/apprehension/discontent are "No!"
Once we get "Yes!" and "No!" down everything else falls into place around that.
Being alert to what we are dismissing, discounting, denying/ignoring will go a long way toward keeping us centered on the beam and true to the path.
We have to make sense of our life. Who are we? What are we about? What are we doing here? Where are we going? What is going on?
We are gradually waking up over the full course of our life, and yet, we are constantly putting ourselves to sleep with the hypnotic repetition of what we have been told of the corporate story of our existence as a species and what it means to be who we are here, now.
So there is our inherited story, and the story that we make up out of our own personal experience which we work to blend together into a narrative that makes sense while blurring from time to time into utter nonsense.
Taking what we are handed and fitting that into our lived experience in a way that corroborates and affirms the steady flow of how things are comes to grief time and again upon the facts that things do not fit.
God doesn't fit. Compassion runs afoul of greed and selfishness. War comes out of nowhere, yet never goes away. We live in ways that do not support life. The lists of how this conflicts with that are endless. The Cosmos is not a harmonious, well-balanced, and mutually supporting whole that makes perfect sense. We have to make allowances and ignore contradictions and conflicts all the time, while closing ourselves off from noise, disruption, complexity and confusion everywhere we can, in order to drop into the emptiness/stillness/silence and tune into ourselves to take a reading, know what's what, what is called for, here, now.
The essence of Buddhism, Christianity and all religion is diversion, distraction, denial, pretension, addiction, delusion,hokum and nonsense, where we mostly ignore what we know in order to affirm what we are told to think/believe "for the good of the whole."
It is a collusion conspiracy that we are all a part of for the sake of the peace and consolation of ourselves. And it is running aground upon the facts, like climate change, that will not be denied forever.
No one is in charge and Trump has lit the fuse.
My advice is to trust ourselves to our intuitive sense of what's what and what is called for here, now. Do that when/where/how it needs to be done without needing to know and do more than that.
Start with learning to know and trust your intuitive sense-- which used to be called, "Listening for God's will."
It got us to this point. It is well-suited to take us the rest of the way.
Steele Creek 08-03-2019 — Anne Springs Close Greenway, Fort Mill, South Carolina
Authenticity and affection are the two missing qualities in wannabe knights of the realm throughout time and place. The heroic characteristics in the comic book hero's left out by artists and authors who themselves are amiss of insight and knowhow, and are carried away by the culture's captivation by power and might, authority and control.
The Buddha and Jesus and those of their bent caught the drift of the flow of the way, however, and lived with hearts of integrity and compassion and eyes on the essence of what matters most.
