12 Sep Kotodama 23
Patients need patience as time is a powerful elixir....
11 Sep The Way Of The Way 24
While of course we wish our friends happiness, best we wish those who dislike us even greater happiness so that they will have no enmity towards us....
09 Sep The Way Of The Way 23
The theater is dark and then we are born. Soon movies come on, one and another and countless more. Family, friends and others steer us to movies in which they star. We pick one or a couple and watch them intently, identifying with certain actors their roles and the storyline. These roles define our lives as it all seems very real. But when the movie ends theater lights break the darkness and the movie is revealed as just a movie, a two-dimensional illusion. When we know from the start it's just a movie we enjoy it for what it is, entertainment, and suffer little regardless of our roles....
08 Sep The Way Of The Way 22
Many religions believe that a good life, when we are grateful for our good fortune and help others so they might also be grateful, assures us a good place in the world to come, the time/place after we are no longer in bodily form. Maybe, maybe not; but certainly it best assures us a wonderful time in the moments ahead....
07 Sep Fake News, Real Costs
Politicians are forever seeking, at the lowest cost to them, the public's attention. They do so by fabricating for journalists outrageous stories from minor events. Hoping to catch the public's attention, viewers and in turn advertisers, journalists publish these stories in the free press. Then the politicians act, presumably for the benefit of the public, in reaction to the stories they read. Their reactions make real news, at the cost of making many lives difficult....
07 Sep The Way Of The Way 21
Love is when we are unconditionally happy experiencing the happiness of our soulmates. As we are made happy by the happiness of our soulmates, our happiness in turn makes them happier which in turn makes us even happier. When this vicarious happiness approach is also that of our soulmates, that is true love....
05 Sep The Way Of The Way 20
It is better we give our love to others than gifts of monetary value. Money comes and goes. Thus, we may not always have enough money to gift. But the love we dispense stimulates our heart to replenish and then some whatever we give....
05 Sep The Way Of The Way 19
A wonderful life is one of no regrets; a life of many poor choices, none of which we would ever wish to reverse because our life as a totality is wonderful. As everything is interdependent, reversing a poor choice results in everything changing. Thus, a poor choice can be made good but the totality may not be for the better, maybe worse. When our life is wonderful in its totality, why trade it for another. If it's not wonderful, we have not realized our purpose. Moreover, dwelling on poor choices and what might, could or should have been does not make for a wonderful life as it precludes us from experiencing the present moment....
03 Sep The Way Of The Way 18
If someone greatly disappoints us, even harms us, we can't be upset with or hate them. We can only be upset with ourselves as our disappointments are generally a result of self-deception, our thoughts and expectations that put us into potentially disappointing situations. Thus, we can learn from these experiences and adjust our thinking and expectations going forward. However, we learn little by blaming others and open ourselves up to future similar disappointments. Moreover, in realizing our self-deception, we can ultimately have a good laugh at ourselves and are then no longer upset....
02 Sep The Way Of The Way 17
With eyes open our minds show us the infinite manifestations of reality. With eyes closed we see one thing, nothing, the true nature of reality....