02c Living to do what the moment needs us to do is to put ourselves in the service of that which is greater than we are. It is the most spiritual thing on the planet, serving the moment, being alive to the here and now, being aware of the here and now, being present toContinue reading “January 23, 2021”
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December 11, 2020
03 What fills us? Where are we “filled to the brim”? Filled with life– with the experience of being fully alive? Where has that–where does that–happen to us? How do we respond? Tears? Laughter? Silence? … Those moments are “transparent to transcendence.” They are “thin places” (Parker Palmer) where the world of The Mystery atContinue reading “December 11, 2020”
December 10, 2020
04 Joseph Campbell said, “If you really want to help this world, what you will have to teach is how to live in it. And that, no one can do who has not learned how to live in it in the joyful sorrow and the sorrowful joy of life as it is.” We are alwaysContinue reading “December 10, 2020”
November 22, 2020
03 What are the things keeping us from being the person we are capable of being, doing the things we are capable of getting done? Really–what is holding us back? Standing in our way? If it weren’t for what, we would be doing what? Sit quietly with those things in your lap. Meditate on thoseContinue reading “November 22, 2020”
November 17, 2020
03 All religion is based on the premature interpretation of experience. The discovery of recurring cycles in the relationships between the stars and planets– with mathematical regularity– did not, does not, mean anything beyond what it is. However, the stargazers who put everything together made it mean what they said it meant by interpreting itContinue reading “November 17, 2020”
November 08, 2020
03 Every photograph that works is synchronistic arrangement bringing the photographer together at the right time in the right place in the right light to compose the image that makes the photograph. Every photograph that works is a miracle in that way. Is the Tao creating wonder and amazement that we pass of with “PrettyContinue reading “November 08, 2020”
November 5, 2020
02 When we live to integrate our opposites and express/incarnate/bring forth our original nature– “the face that was ours before we were born– our identity, who we are, our true self, and not to get something, attain something, have something, possess something, dominate something, win something, have something to show for having lived… When weContinue reading “November 5, 2020”
October 29, 2020
02 We begin to die when we stop singing, dancing, telling, listening to, and being enchanted by, stories, spending time with, and being comforted by, “the sweet territory of silence” (Angeles Arrien). There is a difference that is more than a difference (Like a train wreck is different from a burp) between being driven byContinue reading “October 29, 2020”
October 25, 2020
03 There is no place to get to, nothing to achieve, no destination or end point of the process. Enlightenment is not a steady state of being. There are no steady states of being. Whether even death is or is not remains to be seen. Enlightenment is a process. Illumination is the realization that enlightenmentContinue reading “October 25, 2020”
October 18, 2020
04 Shamanism, you could look this up, is the world’s oldest religion starting up between 10,000 and 5,000 BCE. Hinduism and Taoism come in next from about 5,000 to 2,500 BCE. From at least 2,500 BCE Taoism is documented as saying “It all comes down to doing the right thing in the right way” (orContinue reading “October 18, 2020”
October 16, 2020
–0– 02 If we want to see, we have to see that we are not seeing. And then, we have to see what we are not seeing. We do that best by sitting quietly. Silence is the source of The Source, and the threshold to all seeing/knowing, doing/being. It all begins with silence, and proceedsContinue reading “October 16, 2020”
October 15, 2020
02 What isn’t working for you? Where did you get off the track? What are you seeking? What would make things right? How are you kidding yourself? What would it take to stop? There has to be a reckoning. A coming to terms with how things are. An owning up. A turning. Carl Jung said,Continue reading “October 15, 2020”
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