Finding our niche and our schtick and our hangouts is finding ourselves. Which makes me easy to locate. I stand out like a snag on a mountain ridge. I am peculiar that way. And not particularly accessible, which is the driving idea.On the other hand, I’m eager to talk to anyone about the things IContinue reading “June 09, 2025”
Tag Archives: spirituality
June 05, 2025
Think of this image as theology broadcast to thousands of people of a scene that never existed anywhere in real, actual, time.In real, actual time, the tree in the middle is the only one that is real and actual. At the time I took its picture, it lived across the street from my house inContinue reading “June 05, 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”
April 11, 2025
I’m into helping people establish and maintain their balance and harmony. It’s like this: The frequency of the planet we call earth is 430 Hz, or Hertz for long. And that is about the frequency of Baroque music. And of our bodies at rest. And of the meditative AUM (Or OM). And the closer weContinue reading “April 11, 2025”
April 05, 2025
There is projection and there is association, and they may be the same thing. One thing I project onto this image is that Donald Trump would not find anything attractive about it. My projection is that he would hate it. It is not his kind of place. My projection is that he is attracted toContinue reading “April 05, 2025”
March 31, 2025
We have to make sense of our life. Who are we?What are we about?What are we doing here?Where are we going?What is going on?We are gradually waking upover the full course of our life,and yet, we are constantlyputting ourselves to sleep with the hypnotic repetitionof what we have been toldof the corporate story of ourContinue reading “March 31, 2025”
March 20, 2025 – B
We cannot think up our associations.Association is not imagination.The associations we make with cigarettes, say,or pipe smoking, or alcohol, or cameras, or oceans…are ours alone to make.No one can tell us what our associations areor ought to be.Our associations speak, reveal, disclose, display the truth of who we are.What associations, if any, do you makeContinue reading “March 20, 2025 – B”
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”
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”
December 05, 2023 – B
Aeshylus wrote,He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.Wisdom is the resultof reflection upon experience. The wise are often oldbecause it takes a longContinue reading “December 05, 2023 – B”
December 04, 2023 – B
Art is religion without the theology,creeds,dogmas,doctrines…without the presumptionthat it is explaining,defining,elucidatingspiritual truthin a logical, rational, reasonable kind of way.Art says with images and metaphors”That Which Cannot Be Said,”as the old Taoists might say.Art communes with,and communicates as well as can be communicatedits encounter with the Numen,the Numinous,the Ineffable…Art is “transparent to transcendence,”and expresses,exhibits,displays,reveals,Transcendent Realityin everyContinue reading “December 04, 2023 – B”
December 03, 2023 – A
Nobody can tell us what’s important.We have to discover/realize that for ourselves.We are all looking for what’s important.The Search for the Holy Grail.The Spiritual Journey.The Hero’s Journey.Vision Quests.All are seeking what is important.What matters most.What guides our boat on its path through the sea.What is it for you?What are you doing to find out?Don’t forgetContinue reading “December 03, 2023 – A”
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