Daily Posts

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? DoesContinue reading “Daily Posts”

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,Continue reading “200 Zen Thoughts #2 By Jim Dollar”

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 venturedContinue reading “Three Points on Prayer”

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 anyContinue reading “December 02, 2025”

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, isContinue reading “Buddha Notes 01”

Comments Made To Articles in Tricycle 05, 12/28/2024

01) Putting pain in its place and keeping it there is a matter of seeing what we can get by with and being able to take “No” for an answer. I’ve been on cutches because of arthritic knees for 10 years, and allowing pain tell me what I can do and cannot do–and being fineContinue reading “Comments Made To Articles in Tricycle 05, 12/28/2024”