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March 02, 2026 AI has produced a Richard Feynman lecture on the soul at this address: https://youtu.be/H9oeqq2vZJ8?si=MYeg_ID9YCGv3ayM Making the case for Psyche (Soul) being a foundational aspect of the universe. Feynman died in 1988 but, thanks to AI, has achieved immortality using a script combed from his written works compiled through his life as a…
Are you the Big Boss of the Cosmos? Are you “That Which Has Always Been Called ‘God’?” Are you the essence of how things are? And of how things ought to be? How can I cooperate with you? How can I assist you? Be of service to you? What do I need to know? What…
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February 28, 2026 Aniela Jaffé, quoting Carl Jung: “We can know nothing about the substance of the psyche when the sole means of knowing anything is the psyche.” What does the Psyche know that we don’t know? How do we know what Psyche knows? Is Psyche everything? Is there anything not-Psyche? Does that make Psyche God? Does…
February 13, 2026
The way we respond to life’s deliveries impacts the world’s impact on us. Our response ability works to make things better than they are in each situation as it arises–and is our “first line of defense” in the work of making things as livable as they can be. Controlling what can be controlled helps to…
200 Zen Thoughts #2 By Jim Dollar
And you will get this for starters: The relationship between psyche (the soul/mind) and the Tao (the ultimate principle of the universe) is deeply explored in Jungian Psychology, viewing the Tao as the Self—the center of wholeness where inner psyche meets the outer world, achieved through individuation (integrating opposites like Yin & Yang), experiencing synchronicity,…
Three Points on Prayer
Excerpted from my eBook, A Handbook for the Spiritual Journey II available from Amazon Kindle with an internet search for “Jim Dollar Kindle” 1. Prayer is invalidated by its very premise and its posture as being driven by the profit motive and its interest in maximum benefit at minimum cost. Absolute gain with nothing ventured…
December 02, 2025
Silence and the stillness beyond silence and the emptiness that permits silence (by emptying ourselves of thoughts, fear, anger, all emotions, plans, all noise, are the essential elements in seeing, hearing, understanding, realization, enlightenment, awakening, knowing, doing, being, peacefully abiding here, now. Living a noise-free life–with noise understood to be diversion, distraction, disturbance of any…
Buddha Notes 01
March 29, 2025 The Buddha said, “Growing up is the solution to all of our problems today–or any day.” And, if he didn’t say it, he would have said it if it had occurred to him, because all of his sayings that he did say can be reduced to growing up. Enlightenment, for instance, is…
Comments to Articles in Tricycle 04, 11/12/2024
01) Zen is what happened when Buddhism met Taoism. And taking this article as an example of Zen having more to do with Taoism than with Buddhism, where in Zen would we find anything remotely suggesting that we strive “to attain the state of Noble Tara”? Yet, we speak of “Zen Buddhism” and not “Zen…
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