Zen Baptist

These words came this night: "If you wish to be a Christ-ian, you must achieve the point of view of Christ. Your soul is your point of ...

I am amused that science is proud of its hard-headedness in relying upon data, then engages a mooshy-headedness in explaining that data. Tak...

I struggle to rise from the mud I am, making a cup for receiving thy grace. The cup becomes a chalice, thy wine inpouring. Chalice, wine mer...

The first birth is into the world of matter, where one is a 25 to 28 foot worm coiled in an encasing whose main concerns are incorporation...

I belong to the B.A.N.A.N.A. school of Zen: Bare Ass Naked Awareness Now Awarenessing.

We are light indensifying. This in-dense-ification is our wounding and our challenge.

When I first awaken, I am in the diaphanous, transparent, or celestial mode. I have not yet formed into and as this physicality. In this mod...

Engaging in polemics in politics, religion, and philosophy is akin to standing on a plank in infinite space and proclaiming the virtues of...

My theology: 1. "I saw him as I was able to receive him." (Acts of Peter) 2. "The look by which I know him is the very look b...

Decades ago I found that arising at 4 a.m., sitting quietly and going to ashes, all agenda and personification extinguished, allowed an aris...

The transformation of the human species to cosmic citizenry comes with a price. The hard-won independent egoic self must be surrendered to t...

Death is not the cold body on the ground. Those are the remains. Something has escaped. Be that which escapes. Before the escape. Ride with ...

There are those of us who experience a close relationship with our Source, the Wellspring, God -- an intimate friendship which has nothing t...

It is not that theology is obsolete, then, but that it still is, and for an unpredictable length of time, in the embryonic stage .” Emile Ca...

Despite protestations to the contrary, everyone of us is religious, swears allegiance over and over to an object of worship. Whatever you at...

"The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak." (Matthew 26: 41) While I understand and see the validity of this statement, it is ...

What is Christ if not a symbol of our own mythos, our own story, our own birth, trials, crucifixion, death, and rebirth, our own ascension...

Of all stories my heart has heard and sung I most cherish one. The one creating heavens and earth, the one hiding in plain view, the one wit...

Caught in the battle between the Maker and the Unmaker, I cast my lot with the Maker, with Ertia rather than Inertia. (Yes, yes, I know the ...

Since both "external" objectivity and "internal" subjectivity rest upon fabrication, speak who the fabricator is without...

God is no object, to be tossed aside like a spurned toy from one's childhood. God is a living breathing dynamic force, the pulsing of yo...

God is not dead. We have exiled ourselves.

The Origin and Maintenance of this Universe? The Dark (Great Mystery) births the Light. The Light rejoices and the Light and Dark mutually E...

Just as there is a depth to the Bible which a literalist reading does not begin to comprehend, so it is with the Qur'an. The eye that se...

What does it mean to wrestle with the Angel? For certain, it means to not retreat into one’s secluded room of favored icons nailed to the wa...

What Jesus might have said: Sink or swim on your own, you buzzard vampires, drinking my blood and eating my flesh! Quit wearing my hand-me-d...

I bought this Bible in June, 1957 just prior to leaving for Parris Island boot camp. It went with me all through the Marines and is still wi...

As we consider the infinite number of worlds in the cosmos, each world governed by its inhabiting souls, we might wonder how we are doing ...

The spiritual world surrounds and gives birth to the material world. Trying to prove or disprove the existence of the spiritual from the rea...

Prayer is getting ourselves in tune. Becoming attuned requires some degree of dropping off or letting go, how much depending on the amount o...

Any thought form claiming to be the exclusive truth has not opened to the awareness that the cup does not change the nature of the water.

What's the big hangup about our Source assuming human form? We ourselves are continuously making the external internal and the internal ...

If we allow 0 to represent quality and 6 to represent quantity, we have 0 with a tail on it, and in this quantitative time, where quantity r...

If we hold together as a species, where are we headed? Some say safe in the arms of Jesus, but I don’t think Jesus wants any babies to hold ...

"God will not give us more than we can bear." While that is generally taken to mean that God will not load this donkey down with m...

They slammed me up beside the head with the Bible and its underlined bookmarked step-by-step guide to salvation and I thought, "No, thi...

For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are m...

"Bear ye one another's burdens" -- Galatians 6:2 What the heck does that mean? On the physical plane it's simple enough. I...

Each religious group, political group, and religious-political group is firmly embedded in a set of images it holds as THE TRUTH. Each set o...

We have crucified and have been crucified enough. We put the cross away with our other holy relics. We put nothing on the wall for there are...

By violating their rules of mortgage, Adam and Eve went into deep and unpayable debt. Thrown out of their home, neither they nor their landl...

I am hesitant in writing this because it touches on the sacredness at the core of my being. It can be so easily misunderstood, ridiculed, re...

No matter how much some may respond with denunciation, anger, and fear, humans will continue to be religious, will continue opening to spiri...

Put your shoes off your feet, for the place on which you stand is holy ground. -- Exodus 3: 5 At some point on our spiritual path, we must g...

As a zen baptist, the zen part of me likes the mythos of no mythos, which is an expression of open relationship with all that is, and the ba...

theism and a-theism are two peas in a pod dreaming dreams of disputation with exultant confirmation while the pod and mother plant swaying i...

At a night encampment on the way, the Lord encountered him and sought to kill him. So Zipporah took a flint and cut off her son's foresk...

And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom -- Matthew 27:51 We continue to open on Earth today to a n...

As a dog returns to his vomit, so a fool returns to his folly. Proverbs 26:11 Now I know this is not the most appetizing text to bring to y...