Category Archives: Uncategorized

How to move the focus of our mind from the questions of what, where, when, or how, to why? Perhaps, befoe we begin to ask our self how, when, and/or where we should do whatever, our best interest might be served by asking our self why we desire, or might desire, to do whatever. AreContinue reading “Why Do We Do What We Do”

A simple seeker was meditating on a confusing dream of being lost in traffic and intensive construction, on her way to church to celebrate a harvest festival. She could hear the service begin. A loudspeaker was being used, and yet it didn’t seem to cause her to wonder why, even though it had never beenContinue reading “Are Bad Guys Necessary?”

If an expanded capacity of awareness, and the limit to which we have developed our unique potentials, is all that we can take with us, then how to make the best use of the time we have left?

Welcome to anyone who has stopped by to check out this future gathering place of Simple Seekers, here on this future home of our shared thoughts about seeking truth about life as experienced and expressed in language simple enough for the average person to understand. Future is all that I can offer at this time.Continue reading “Simple Seeker Society”

A defender of the race said, “I dare you. You try being a human.” And here we are.

Social conditioning gets the blame when we choose fast foods and brand name wear. Advertisers know what creatures of habit we mortals be, and they use that weakness to persuade us to buy whatever they tell us to. Tell us enough times that pop and fries taste good and we’ll believe you. They will evenContinue reading “Social Conditioning Gets Blame”

To talk the walk and walk the talk sounds easy enough to do, but is it safe to seem to be wise? Or wise to seem to be safe while talking the walk and walking the talk? And, how and why would we do it, if we could? I mean, the only talk that weContinue reading “To Talk the Walk”

“Existence comes before essence.” Who said that? “Likely, an exisentialist.” A simple seeker was aware that her spirit teacher didn’t seem to approve of assigning names as credits . He kept reminding her that ideas come to us. We don’t go to them, nor do we create them from nothing. But then, what we doContinue reading “Another Way to See the Tree”

A simple seeker was mournng for someone she had never met, at least not in person during this lifetime.He was, to her, as a hero – a giant of a man. Even the trees around her hung heavy, as if to share her mood. “We each come for a purpose, and when we’ve completed ourContinue reading “Another Hero Gone”

Comparing oneself with others is as a one-to-one measurement, while judging is not. Or is it? Perhaps we necessarily measure ourselves in every way, with some others, or with group norms, as we understand them to be. So many times we hear that old warning, “Judge not lest thou be judged.” And yet, how canContinue reading “Comparing Oneself with Others”