Zen Baptist

What does it mean to know Jesus? Not to know of Jesus but to know Jesus. It means to share consciousness. To share the same consciousness ...

"Not my will but thine be done." What does this mean, this prayer that is not only Christian but also Taoist, Buddhist, Islamist,...

My Mom used to say that God is a gentleman. God will not come where God is not wanted. If you want to know God, you must WANT to know God. ...

The warp and woof of spiritual endeavor: For each person has their conceptual schema, their thought helmet, their consciousness state which...

Our Source is everywhere, not just the goody goody places. "If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, beho...

Our Source is not that which one knows but that by which one knows.

Observation without identification is zeneration.

"The mocking of Jesus on the cross continues to this day.  We stare into the mirror at our own Medusa reflection and turn to stone w...

Spiritual Practice (Qi Gung): "Rooting and grounding in Love." This is an actual whole body movement with the condensing of rooti...

I am enamored of "The Hidden Third" which can resolve much division. For example, imagine a triangle. At its flat base, place ...

My Zen name was once Nothing Doing. Now it is Wreck Loose.

Zen Baptist -- "Thy words have I hid in my heart that I might not sin against thee." Not the head brain. The heart brain. Not the...

Yes, I am a Christ-ian, a follower of the Christ Wisdom, of the melding of God and Human, of the Source Sourcing, of the Wellspring Springi...

Attention directs energy. Whatever we attend to, we become. We become like that to which we attend. Attend to a character in a movie, we st...

We have (are) our sensory world of what we call fact and we have (are) our inner world of what we call imagination. They say if we live by...

Joy! He realizes deeply that his reason for being is the expression of the joy in his soul, the joy at his core, the joy of seeing a chicke...

How can we understand others unless we are converted to their position while maintaining our own? This can be particularly difficult with t...

Belief, faith, and dogma. Take a chair. Belief is that the chair will hold you up. Faith is actually sitting in the chair. Dogma is believi...

You can take it metaphorically or you can take it literally. Me, I take it intuitionally and those two too. Intuitionally means the whole i...

Be careful where you place your eyes, for what your eyes take in you become. The eyes are the outward manifestation of the brain. The brain...

It is fashionable these days to not believe in Jesus, to not believe in God, and definitely to not believe in Jesus as God personified. So...

Global Spirituality: the ongoing movement within us all, as planetary citizens, to listen to and move in accord with the Spirit, the Life F...

The story of God's embodying as Jesus in order to do recompense for his own distancing from and treatment of the humanimals he created ...

“I die daily.” I Corinthians 15: 31 What does this mean, to die daily? It means to take the time to release yourself from all your plans ...

I do not wish to stand and look at what is wrong. I leave that to others compelled to do so. My work is to assist in putting the first huma...

We are children of the Cosmos, offspring of the Wellspring, creations of Yahweh, lovers of Allah, daughters and sons of God by whatever nam...

Had a really great, deep and interesting spirituo-theo-logical conversation for about 20 minutes or so with a friend I bumped into on the ...

We live in and as an ever flowing streaming of energy. This energy flows out of and is the Mystery that is so intimate, so close, that prov...

3 a.m. -- Awaking from sleep -- the intermediate world between sleep and wakefulness -- I saw that to “have no other images before me” mean...

Dear Unborn Kin, A little info to let you know who continues to write to you. I am a renegade preacher, a mouthpiece for the truth I hear...

A gentleman was on TV tonight saying that the Pope's statement that evolution is not inconsistent with the notion of creation is a case...

The Seen and the Unseen. The Seen is what is seen through the physical senses. The Unseen is all else. The Seen is a very small world compar...

Many seem to have made Jesus into a sanctified marshmallow for their salvational s'mores, but he was a wild paradoxical parable speakin...

"Capaciousness. It's all about capaciousness. Capacity. Room." The folk around me have heard that more than a few times. Her...

Long years ago I packed my metaphysical bags and left Troup and Fulton counties and the Baptists behind to go see what the Buddhists were u...

As I continue becoming more closely reacquainted with Jesus through reading The Message, a translation of the Bible in contemporary street ...

Morning thoughts: I dearly love Jesus. Am reading anew of his exploits in Eugene Peterson’s “The Message.” He really gave the hypocrites (t...

We are Awareness awarenessing. We generally identify only with the small "a" awareness. We are like a pen writing upon a page. Th...

There are those who worship God "out there" and those who reject God "out there." The worship and the rejection are two...

When one does not cut God off by putting Him as "out there," the Christian concept and experience of grace is highly similar if n...

This world is friction. Walk is friction. Talk is friction. Thinking is friction. Relationship is friction. Even love needs a lubricant. Th...

Our physical body has a skeleton, a framework for supporting it. So does our spiritual body. The spiritual body's frame is called a rel...

Cosmotheophilosphy 101. Some believe there is a Divinity. Some believe there is not. My question is: Who is this believing? Who is this bel...

Jesus gave me love. Buddha opened my mind.

To my Christian friends who may not know: Buddhism is not a religion and Buddha is not seen as a god. He was walking along after his awaren...

Amongst all the cosmic realms, the realms of conscious awareness, we live in the Realm of Desire. Three forces keep us here. One is wanting...

Orthodox christianity is based upon sin being obliterated through sacrifice. Relational christianity is based upon ignorance being oblitera...

No answers exist "out there" that are not also "in here." The outer infinity and the inner infinity are the same infini...

A theology is a developed system of religious belief and theory. What many folk who say they rely upon the New Testament writings about Jes...

On Conversion. A simple way to experience conversion (change of consciousness state) is, if you are sitting down stand up, or if you are st...

"What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?" (Psalm 8:4) Or as the genderly correct...

Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge. (Psalm 19: 2) During the night, we dissolve our bounds. We open to ...

"Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall a child be born unto him that is an hundred years old? and...

Most of you won't be at all interested in this, so go on about your business. If Eastern-Western dialogue is to succeed, Buddhism and C...

Since I am in what is sometimes called the advancing years and sometimes the declining (no wonder we Geezers get confused), I am looking t...

"Today we have a visiting minister. A Sufi joins our Zen Baptist journey. I would like the congregation to welcome Nasruddin , who has...

The Bible is the story, the mythos, the journeying of my own soul. It tells of internal dynamics. All its voices are the voices within me, ...

"Lift up your heads, O ye gates!" (Psalm 24:7) Stop just plowing along on the horizontal. Open to the vertical. Lift up your s...

"For God has consigned all men to disobedience so that He may show mercy to all." (Romans 11:32) I know this verse is conventio...

This imagery, a painting (Christ Our Pilot) by Warner Sallman, had powerful effect on me as a boy and young man. I looked at it from time...

(Excerpt from " The World's First Ever Baptist Crime Novel ") In his deep inner being, Gregor knew that he had doomed h...