I’m Jim Dollar and I’m here to help people find their life and live it in a “Who am I and what am I about?” kind of way. I spent 40.5 years as a minister in the Presbyterian Church U.S.A., serving congregations in Louisiana, Mississippi and North Carolina, and picking up pointers along the way.Continue reading “January 14, 2025”
Tag Archives: Knowing
January 03, 2026
What would make the biggest difference for good in your life that is in your ability to effect? The one thing I can think of that would apply to all of us is emptiness, stillness, silence (One thing, not three) regularly applied frequently throughout the time left for living. Just sitting still, being quiet, watchingContinue reading “January 03, 2026”
December 31, 2025
Finding our way starts with where we are here, now, and with what we perceive our options to be. What are our assets? Our liabilities? Our choices? We might drop into the emptiness/stillness/silence with these questions and wait to see what occurs to us out of the silence. I am retired with no pressing responsibilitiesContinue reading “December 31, 2025”
December 13, 2015
Don’t have a plan! By all means, do not have to have a plan! All thought out from every angle, the brain child of reason and logic, carefully crafted and put into place. What does logic know of psyche? Do they ever talk shop and trade secrets over coffee and donuts? Nod in passing? AttendContinue reading “December 13, 2015”
December 07 – B, 2025
This is #160 in my “Zen Thoughts” on my other WordPress Blog, “Jim Dollar’s Published Works.” There is wanting, and there is guessing, and there is thinking, and there is knowing. Knowing how to know what’s what, what’s happening, what’s called for, what needs to be done, where, when and how is the Philosopher’s Stone.Continue reading “December 07 – B, 2025”
November 07, 2025
“The observer cannot be separated from the observed.” Where does experience stop and projection start? We see everything from the standpoint of “the way we see things.” How we see things makes things as they are. And we live in relationship with things and people as though they are the way we see them. AllContinue reading “November 07, 2025”
October 16, 2025 – B
The Garden of Eden did not exist. Adam and Eve are not real people. The story is about the danger of wanting the wrong things, of caring about things that do not matter. It is a great story. And terrible theology. All theology is terrible. Theology is a collection of opinions about hearsay. There isContinue reading “October 16, 2025 – B”
October 11, 2025
We are here to be who we are and do what is ours to do. And we know what that is, but we can be sidetracked by things that are attractive to our eye and a torch to our desires, and led far from the path that is our path to take, and come toContinue reading “October 11, 2025”
September 21, 2025
Experience is required to know/understand/comprehend. It cannot be said, told, explained, defined… Psyche is leading us to knowing throughout our life. We are not old enough to get it until we are old. And then it takes talking to/with people who are consciously seeking to grasp Psyche’s attempts at communion. Waking up. Enlightenment–is Psyche breakingContinue reading “September 21, 2025”
September 16, 2025
The Buddha saw “Peaceful abiding, here, now,” as the foundation of “having life and having it abundantly.” I call it “Looking out the window.” When I sit, I sit looking out the window, at the focal point, the foundation, of “having life and having it abundantly.” Everywhere can be the vehicle/Portkey/threshold/doorway to “peaceful abiding, here,Continue reading “September 16, 2025”
Fall Months, 2025
Being who we are, where we are, when we are, how we are is integrity, being expressing/exhibiting being.Integrity comes easy with rocks and oceans and things that have no choice in the matter. A bumble bee just is. The universe is crammed with things that are what they are and can’t help it or doContinue reading “Fall Months, 2025”
August 16, 2025
Each situation has its own direction and flow that has to be recognized and taken into account. Forcing action that is not conducive to the situation as a whole creates a disturbance in the flow that has impact and implications for the balance and harmony and wellbeing of the here, now and the not yetContinue reading “August 16, 2025”
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