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”
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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”
July 21, 2025
This adventure of writing a daly reflection has opened before me as an exploration of myself and our (corporate/universal) need for this kind of exploration/realization/awakening/ enlightenment worldwide. Everything will do that if we let it.Everything is a portal, a port-key, a threshold to ourselves if we have the courage/luck to see what we look at,Continue reading “July 21, 2025”
July, 2025
The best thing we can do for ourselvesis to be quiet in a routine and regular way.When Jesus said, “Pray always,” he meant, “Live out of the silence.”In the silence, we are in the presence of What Has Always Been Called “God.” The silence is the bridge between worlds–the world of conscious reality and theContinue reading “July, 2025”
June 23, 2025
Making a montage of the wisdom outlets of history produces a “single story” of what it takes to “right the world” over the course of several lifetimes. The elements required read like a spiritual recipe for “the right life.”High on the list are integrity, sincerity, authenticity, but I find the most revered quality is beingContinue reading “June 23, 2025”
May 12, 2025
What do we want from religion? Eternal life? Invisible assistance in having our way/getting what we want? The old Taoists sought to align themselves with the Tao or Wayin order to assist/participate in the flow of life and beingby doing what was called for in each situation as it arose–doing the right thing, in theContinue reading “May 12, 2025”
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 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”
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