Spirituality for Living

What people are supposed to do is often what keeps the wheels of their life turning, like paying the bills, going to work. Wouldn’t they do it better if they worried about it less? Would it fall apart if we stopped? I think we fear that too much. Fear. There is a fine line between [...]

Projection is quite natural, and by projection I mean projection of your state of mind. Ever notice when you are actively engaging someone in conversation you tend to imitate their body language without thinking about it? In the case of a community some of those states are viral. You can tell when someone is “not [...]

Alan watts said society tells us what we ‘must’ be, and we ‘must’ be it voluntarily. That compulsory volunteer. They define tyranny as anything not forbidden being mandatory. Our freedom is just tyranny with the weight of moralism behind it. Japan has a very low crime rate, but a very high instance of self destructive [...]

I wonder if insane is the opposite to peace? Yes, ultimately insane is the opposite of peace. Though we call much that is insane, sane. Much that is unreal, real. The insanity is pretty deeply rooted.
Should we embrace insanity when we have established that it is what we reject that makes us weak? Strange, but [...]

Is his love good enough? Never enough of it? There is never enough of it, and that’s why relationships last a lifetime. This is good. For your center in your relationship, remember that. Remember the love he gives and give yours. Let yourself be moved by his love.  If your love can be moved from other [...]

Any student of logic knows that logic is just a form of cognitive reality checking.  It is a function of the monkey mind taken to a cerebral level, and logic can be satisfied by any consistency. This is why even now psychology says that any belief that is commonly held by your culture cannot be [...]

The idea of ‘that is me’… I have an idea of who I am, and honestly it’s not a very interesting idea. It isn’t very fun, so since I like interesting ideas and fun, I look around. Where am I now really? Do I know everything about what is here? What can I do here?
In [...]

Connecting one to one is for understanding. That is the purpose, and really it’s the purpose to any human interaction. In the broader sense they call it love, but the originating spirit in us, the level of consciousness that precedes our ideation about communication and life itself, is rarely apprehended or approached with much understanding. [...]

Anyone not have impulses? I know I do, and aren’t artists known for being impulsive? It’s almost a stereotype.
Well, it is true, and any artist can tell you the difference between you and them is not what’s in your head, but how they feel about it. For an artist, an impulse is powerful like feeling a [...]

Abstinence can be freeing in a way. It leads to greater indulgence, and allows for informed choice. Abstinence lets you really feel and understand your own being, and how you are letting it reflect in the world anyway, but it needn’t be compulsory. Rather than “never do this” and “always do that”, maybe it can [...]

These people you dislike, they aren’t your enemies. They have given you the gift of seeing your own definitions. You can accept that special gift from them, and then not hurt yourself over anything else about them.
There is attachment, aversions and indifference to everyone we meet. It’s the indifference with which I am focusing on. [...]

What is waste, my friends?

A lost opportunity.
Stuff we don’t need?
Something squandered.
Excess.

All answers are valid because we all see it differently, and that is perhaps the key point. People often judge another with the lament, “What a waste”. I would ask, how do they know? Every choice of one thing involves an action that excludes another [...]

We are going to talk about futility. It has been on my mind a lot. I would start by asking, what isn’t futile?

Breathing? Is if you’re submersed in water.
The soul? Hmm, good response, and will go into that later.
I’m thinking of dishes and laundry, and how you get them clean and then dirty them again.
Hmmm, [...]

Let’s look at these serious situations. Seriousness, hmm. What use is that idea? I do these talks because I am completely willing to be foolish.
Is nature serious? Is a hunting wolf serious? I suspect not. I suspect it is just hungry. What would happen if it were serious about hunting?
He would need a strategy and [...]

I once wept at a friends funeral. It was a first for me. He was a dear friend. Had helped me find a place in humanity. Helped me get off the streets. When he was killed by the train I wept, because he had spent a life “trying” and he had been so hopeful. Human [...]

The topic is play. Plato has a saying and I’ll paraphrase. He said you can learn more about a person from an hour of play than a year of conversation. What do you think of this friends?
Yeahhh, get me in a game of monopoly and you’ll find out! Part of why play is [...]

Who doesn’t have stories? Who does something that isn’t play?
I think we are stories. We are stories and we are more. We are the shapers of stories. Problem is, we have some serious issues like we believe things are serious.
Play is permission to do. When we play as kids, we get or give ourselves permission [...]