Zen Baptist

I love the breath that breathes me. When I love the breath that breathes me, I become the breath that breathes me. When I become the br...

If you believe your god is the only god, you are automatically at war. Never mind that you say your god is love.

As a holy joe, you are a schmo. Sinking into dark, you are a snark. Jesus and Beelzebub are brothers, Chasing round and round that tree ...

Christianity as a method of salvation loses all its efficacy as a method when that method becomes a reality. Once one leaps from a springboa...

"The color of water is the color of its vessel." (Junayd, 10th century) Water also assumes the form of its vessel. Hence, the gr...

The tuning fork that we are consists of one tine of pure animal and one tine of pure spirit. The call is for both tines to vibrate fully, op...

The Not-Even-One, the One, and the dualistic Two which we embody ("on the one hand and on the other hand") merge to make the Three...

0 - wu- nothing - source - father/mother 1 - yu - something - emanation - son/daughter 2 - t'ai - everything - interflow - holy spirit...

I love Easter. Life arising out of Death. All of Nature displaying this pattern mysterious yet familiar. Famil-iar: in the Family. Even and ...

"Sin" is not a popular term and is open to ridicule by those who reject an out-moded Christian paradigm based on guilt. To me, sin...

"He said hello to the Morning Jesus. The Morning Jesus is calm and bright, good sunshine colors. Humorous, the Morning Jesus is humorou...

Humans: a cosmic experiment whose outcome is yet to be known, except by the Great Ah-Hoo-Ah-Hoo-Ah whose end is only a fresh beginning and w...

Self-reflection: absorption in the echoes bouncing off the thin, tough, and shifting membrane of the imagination.

Heart in the cosmos, feet in the world of men, I make my coffee, I dance and sing.

The preachers of yore, of my childhood, whether on Sunday or one of those hot eternal Revival summer nights, would get up in the pulpit, the...

I am the Eternal PacMan chomping life while monsters chase. A golden sun with pie wedge mouth devouring all before me monster in dis...

the rooster crowing the hen clucking the flower opening the corpse rotting the lotus blooming the root mucking the spirit fleshing ...

When we say it's this or that we've now shat in our own hat. When we say it's them or us we've become a spiteful cus...

Early thought was that hell existed below (beneath the earth) and heaven existed above (in the sky). That gave way to a belief that both h...

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 ...