Spirituality for Living

First seclusion, then the next stage of a rite of passage is limination. Going to the edge.  These days many people make a career of that but there is no reason. It is sort of rebellion but without a clue. They go to the edge because they don’t like the center. Naturally it’s crazy, but [...]

If you want to avoid confusion, identifying your familiar is helpful. If your familiar is a Kami, they tend to be sort of organized so they are good at networking. If your familiar is a Fairy, they are more free spirited, attuned to the raw pulse of life, and understand the primal desire in life. Kami [...]

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 [...]

I do like the idea of accepting the literal facts of gender difference without additional prejudice. Men don’t need to be emasculated, women don’t need to be intimidated, yet we do both. In the States, if a man gets married he’s seen as having “gotten a wife”. I often mock my male friends for how [...]

You’re never bored when you play your own game. You’re bored when you play another’s game.

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Avocation is also known as ones “Calling”. We all deal with the realities of vocation in one way or another, but that is not the same thing. Your vocation is just gainful work you do, because someone employs you to do it, and can be completely arbitrary. Avocation is what you will do from your [...]

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Now here is a big revelation, and yet is perhaps the most simple truth I know. How many emotions do you have?
Probably an infinite number. Countless or one? I’m not sure I can feel more than one at any time. Is true, and well they say God is love right? They also say that God [...]

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 [...]

Who here is wiser than the whole planet?
People who train their body not to do something like cry really get twisted. If I try hard not to cry, I usually do it anyway. Maybe that is why some folks can’t take all that excitement. They would be uncomfortably afraid.
Unfortunately we train our body to repress [...]

I know someone who agreed to live in a place that is killing her to get a job. Her health has declined horribly. Is she frustrated, and if so how would it be about the environment?
In order for her to earn a living, she has to be subjected to harm? This is her belief, yes.
She [...]

Today, we talk about play. People seem to have a lot of attitudes about play. One is to see it as frivolous. Another sees it as refuge from a “reality” they don’t like. For some their play is even work. What are your attitudes about play, friends?

I see play as a vital form of regeneration [...]

I was asked to smile all the time, and I couldn’t figure out why. Then I finally notice that I have a natural frowning mouth. I am often told I look bored and upset even when I’m not. I seem to be scowling normally also. To know if I’m smiling you have to listen to [...]

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 [...]

Can anyone tell me what they do in life that isn’t play?

I’d say sleep, but dreams are play. So scratch that, the “little death” is play.
Cleaning? Cleaning is play too. It’s “Let’s pretend this isn’t dirty after I spend a lot of energy making it look like it’s not“.
Cleaning to my standard is play. Cleaning [...]

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 [...]

In Taoism, they speak of the way that cannot be named. Friends, we all started from the same space on the game board, but we forgot what we were playing and why.
Lose one turn? Regrettably we lose many turns in life, because we have to be “serious”. How many broken dreams do people live with? [...]

Ever actor has a role. There is no movie without these roles. Roles are “spirits”. We recognize the role of every character in theatre without being told. It’s quite easy, because the “spirit” of the role is real. There is not this father or that father. These aren’t the spirit. There is “the father”. There [...]