Playfully–to play, to play
Playfully—to play, to play
Testing & Trying
Seeking and Hugging
Something more & All this
:- Doug.
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If you want to be clear why choose a word like hermeneutics?
If you want to be clear why choose a word like hermeneutics? Heuristic thought is a slightly better big word because I must work out for myself what it means.
:- Doug.
Our age is coming to a realization of the essential interconnectedness
Our age is coming to a realization of the essential interconnectedness of all. A drilling platform explode and an American presidency and people are put in crisis. A hurricane and a tsunami strike remote parts and the world responds in heart currency. An illness develops and is soon brought here by travelers. In such an interrelated world it can be little wonder that what is most needed and effective is to converse widely and intimately.
:- Doug.
be courageous to put into play
How do I make things happen today? The response has to involve big things and little things. That necessitates attention. Thus:
—be vigilant to little and to big
—be courageous to put into play
—stretch
—ring the bells, calling, calling!
:- Doug.
Blue skies with some medium sized cumulus floating
Blue skies with some medium sized cumulus floating around. I’d like to float around like those clouds.
:- Doug.
The use of imaginal biographies
We gain perspective on our lives by telling the biographies of people, even if imaginal. We can help another grow by asking for fanciful stories, perhaps step by step as one might coax a story from a 5-year old grandson.
:- Doug.
How do we gain people’s attention to what matters?
How do we gain people’s attention to what matters?
:- Doug.
What displaced the nuclear threat?
What displaced the nuclear threat to life on this planet, so worrisome in the 1980s? We do not eliminate our worries, we merely go on to larger, or at least more current, ones.
:- Doug.
This is our work, the work of all of us: to be a blessing to all families of the earth.
This is our work, the work of all of us: to be a blessing to all families of the earth.
:- Doug.
Going via a rickety
Not only
unknowing going
is demanded
of us
Required is
going via
a rickety
falling apart
barely holding
together craft
:- Doug.
Ending up with no image of a personal God
So what if we end up with no image of a personal God? Since when was God owned by any one person? Or even by all persons, one at a time?
:- Doug.
My difference with Kabbalah
Kabbalah suggests that our work is to restore the oneness that existed before divinity burst forth.
I differ, seeing that we can create a new oneness, more wonderful than the first, simply because we have all the growth and joy and tears from in between times added.
:- Doug.
If you have commented on this, what is the pebble in your shoe?
If you have commented on this, what is the pebble in your shoe?
:- Doug.
Pay attention when your mind wanders: here explore.
Pay attention when your mind wanders: here explore.
:- Doug.
…/Cushions left behind/Rocking
The enthralling mystery
The sending mystery
Cushions essential
Cushions left behind
Rocking
:- Doug.
Particularly remember the movings….
This is G&d. This. You. Me. All. And particularly remember the betweens, the moving.
:- Doug.
Seeing is not merely believing. Seeing is doing.
Thinking the thoughts is advancing the work. Getting these things out there helps make things happen. If you cannot think it, you cannot do it.
Seeing is not merely believing. Seeing is doing.
:- Doug.
What does the inside of God look like?
What does the inside of G*d look like? All of this. The clouds and the rain and the storms as well as the sun and the breeze and the growing crops and nuzzling.
:- Doug.
