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”
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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”
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 19, 2025
We are the source of everything that isn’t a rock or a tree. Including God. We made it all up, right out of our own Psyche/imagination. We told ourselves stories that scared us into making up other stories to calm us down. Hate, anger, fear and greed are the origin of most of our problemsContinue reading “September 19, 2025”
September 18, 2025
We are all that stands between us and the Void.That being the case, we might think we would be doing a better job laying a foundation with ourselves that will allow us to deal with what’s coming up, instead of looking the other way and hoping for the best. If the best were in play,Continue reading “September 18, 2025”
September 05, 2025
The relationship between the flow of life and emptiness, stillness, silence is “right there,” for all of us to experience any time.The place of silence (emptiness and stillness) in the life of the species from the beginning of consciousness until now is a topic I would like to have explored by those in position toContinue reading “September 05, 2025”
August 21, 2025
I’m thinking Psyche is something all life shares/has in common. All living things are one in this way. Consciousness is more or less aware of that connection. Emptiness/stillness/silence (one thing not three), or meditation/reflection, enhances/deepens/expands that connection, and we work together in the service of what is called for here, now, for the mutual goodContinue reading “August 21, 2025”
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