We tend to go where the job takes us and income is the directing factor in our life most often. Jesus and the Buddha cared nothing about money. The Buddha walked away from certain King-ship and Jesus was of the opinion that “The love of money is the root of all evil,” and “It isContinue reading “December 09, 2025”
Tag Archives: Buddhism
March 13, 2025 – B
What we see is how we look. This image of the Buddha free from all assumptions, inferences, projections, presuppositions, conclusions, impressions, etc., is just what it is, which is an accurate impression of the Buddha himself who was “One thus come,” like a rock on the road or a wave on the ocean — andContinue reading “March 13, 2025 – B”
January 24, 2025
It would be a reasonably close approximationto say that Taoism was being developed by Shamansin and near China by around 1500 BCE,and that Lao Tzu was creditedwith writing the Tao Te Ching about 500 BCE,and that the Buddha was stirring around in India about that same time.And that about 206-220 CE Buddhism was beingintroduced intoContinue reading “January 24, 2025”
November 17, 2024
1) All of the outstanding people of every age share the same “gifts of the spirit”with each other,namely, their original nature(different, though “the same” in all people),their innate virtues(What they did best and enjoyed doing most)and their intrinsic intuition.These are the things that set us all apart,yet make us all one.And no one,including Jesus andContinue reading “November 17, 2024”
November 12, 2024
The Classic Taoists areLao Tzu–which is more of a collective writing under the pseudonym over timerather than an individual living at a specific point in time and space.Chung Tzu (Or Zhuang Tzu).Lieh-Tzu andWen Tzu (Or Wenzi)These people and their discipleslived out of their own intuition/imaginationin crafting a lifelived in the serviceof doing what was calledContinue reading “November 12, 2024”
October 16, 2020
–0– 02 If we want to see, we have to see that we are not seeing. And then, we have to see what we are not seeing. We do that best by sitting quietly. Silence is the source of The Source, and the threshold to all seeing/knowing, doing/being. It all begins with silence, and proceedsContinue reading “October 16, 2020”
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