The force that centers us, grounds us, balances us, harmonizes us, directs us, guides us, has been called the Tao at work in our life for thousands of years. We can think of the Tao as the flow of life and being. As that which moves all life and every thing. As “circumstances begetting circumstances,”Continue reading “March 30, 2026”
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March 27, 2026
Understanding “projection,” not as a psychological defense mechanism where by we imagine others to be as we are, and see in them characteristics that are actually true of us, but as a tendency we have to project our bias regarding an entire class of people as being true of those people. Racism is a whiteContinue reading “March 27, 2026”
March 03, 2026
It comes down to our relationship with Psyche and with Intuition, and they may be the same thing. How can we deepen, enhance, expand, enlarge our relationship with, awareness of, Psyche and Intuition? That is the only thing that matters in the time left for living. Reflecting in emptiness, stillness and silence will help. TakingContinue reading “March 03, 2026”
January 18, 2026
The Way of the Tao is the way of water seeking its own level, which has nothing to do with what water wants. Water doesn’t want anything. Water just does what its circumstances call for. This is the First Lesson of the Tao: What does wanting know? What is being asked of us? Here, now?Continue reading “January 18, 2026”
December 27, 2025
Having done it is it. No one living–no living thing–has done it without having toughed it out somewhere, if not all the way, along the way, and they get style points for having toughed it out with style and with grace and with Pizzazz along the way. Style points are icing on the cake. TheyContinue reading “December 27, 2025”
December 09, 2025
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”
November 22, 2025
Carl Jung would tell us that our role in life is not to be the Buddha, and it is not to be the Christ, but that it is to be simply who we are. Jung’s complete focus was what he called “Individuation,” being who we are to be. He talked about “”The Primary Mask,” whichContinue reading “November 22, 2025”
November 10, 2025
This is the remnant of an early rice plantation that could not compete with new varieties of rice and different ways to grow it, and the Civil War. What is civil about war? Is that not ridiculous? Absurd? Shameful? Disgusting? Are we not disgusting as human beings across time, around the world, throughout the Cosmos?Continue reading “November 10, 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 28, 2025
We are paying the price for electing Donald Trump, and will be paying it for the rest of our life. This train wreck won’t fix itself, put itself back on the tracks and chug along to glory in our life time. We are on our own. It is up to us to put our lifeContinue reading “October 28, 2025”
October 23, 2025
We are back to where the old Taoists were with Lao Tzu and the Tao Te Ching in the neighborhood of 600 years BCE, with living to be in sync with, aligned with, in accord with the movement, the rhythm and flow, of life and being.The fundamental/foundational recognition/understanding is that there is a right wayContinue reading “October 23, 2025”
October 08, 2025 – B
Anything can serve as a symbol of the Psyche, just as anything can serve as a symbol of anything–because the meaning of anything is the meaning we subscribe to it. It is what we say it is. This is true of everything from the beginning of things. Nothing means anything of itself. Everything means whatContinue reading “October 08, 2025 – B”
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