Waiting to know IT when we see it,and trusting ourselves to know what to do about it when we do–and in the meantime what do we do while we wait?Waiting is IT for me,and watching,seeing, hearing, knowing, doing, being.That has been IT,and I have had a good time doing IT.Making this photograph,these photographs, was aContinue reading “June 30,2025”
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May 16, 2025 – B
Meister Eckhart (1260-1328) said, “The last leave-takingis leaving God for God.” Eckhart was a German Catholic who was found guilty of heresy and died (perhaps murdered) before his sentence was served. It takes a heretic to see/speak the truth, it seems.The leave-taking I have in mind is leaving the God of the Bible and theologyContinue reading “May 16, 2025 – B”
January 27, 2021
03 The single most important thing you can do to improve your chances of living well upon the earth throughout the time left for living is to become accomplished in taking “No” for an answer. By “accomplished” I mean taking “No” for an answer when, where, and how it needs to be done the wayContinue reading “January 27, 2021”
January 15, 2021
03 The Buddha’s first great discovery was “All life is suffering.” It gets better. His second great discovery was “The way to freedom from suffering is to not care about anything.” That’s it. Buddhism in two sentences. Get those down and you are as enlightened as the Buddha was. Or, you could just say, “SufferingContinue reading “January 15, 2021”
December 21, 2021
04 Today is the Winter Solstice, the shortest day in the year, and the day the sun turns back toward the earth. The day all those human beings were sacrificed through the ages to bring The God back– and it WORKED!!! All of our ideologies “work” the same way! “Let it be!” said the Beatles.Continue reading “December 21, 2021”
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 28, 2020
06 In any Now, we do not know What’s Next. In attempting to soothe our anxiety, take control of the moment and arrange What’s Next, we remove ourselves from the flow of Tao– which is the flow of time (kairos) and place (dharma), upset the dispensation of Grace and Synchronicity, and operate as a rogueContinue reading “October 28, 2020”
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