For Sunday April 12th, 2026

Hello, wonderful people. J. Krishnamurti tells us that repeating a mantra to quiet the mind doesn't really work. The repetition of a mantra, as beautiful as it may be, is more a matter of not letting the mind get a word in. So a part of your mind is quiet while another part is forcing that quietness.

 
Two things; it's not a truly quiet mind because part of it is working and; it removes the self-awareness of seeing how our mind works. A truly quiet mind watches the chatter without engaging in it, as if watching from afar and without judgement.

May we try once again this evening to attain a quiet mind which simply observes. We don't recall the difficulties of learning to walk and talk as children, we simply kept trying naturally. Let's use that same innocent beauty tonight.

 
With blessings for all,

Richard

For Sunday March 6th, 2026

Hello all, we may be asked to do hard things as this spiritual transition progresses. Think of the effort involved in personal transitions, relationships ending, working to control weight gain, overcoming addictions, all of which have very difficult moments. Now expand that to an entire planet changing its orientation from material to spiritual.

It's big, and we all have a part to play in it. No matter how large or small your part may appear to you, it's still essential in completing the whole.

May we sit this evening pondering Tom Sawyer's essential guidance – "keep breathing and be willing."

Bless you all,

Richard

For Sunday March 29th, 2026

Hello to all in this ongoing transition. We're watching forces and sources work to maintain their positions of external power; financial, political, and military. We also see those who are responding from their hearts; reaching out to those in need, helping neighbors, supporting each other.

It's a desperate balance at the moment.

Let us sit this Sunday evening giving energy to those who respond from their hearts, who are hopefully 'looking upward' for guidance. May we cushion the difficulties, enhance the beautiful, and always be willing.

Bless you all for all you do,

Richard

For Sunday March 22nd, 2026

Hello, loving lights. We are told that true meditation is not musing nor daydreaming but, as your body is made up of the physical, mental, and the spiritual, it is the attuning of the mental body and the physical body to its spiritual source.

As millions of practitioners can tell you, it doesn't come easily.

However, shall we try again? Any one or two second flash of pure quietness, in between all the chattering, just like any honest effort, is righteous and worthwhile.

 
With blessings and encouragement for all,

Richard

For Sunday March 15th, 2026

Hello, and grateful greetings to all. In this life it's easy to follow rules which define virtue and humility for us. But true virtue and humility is not learned, not something to be practiced. But rather, in seeing vanity, pride, greed, and all the rest of that nonsense create disorder for us, in the observing of that disorder we come to choose different directions which, when viewed in total, are called virtue and humility.

We learn who we are as we go.

May we sit this evening being lovingly aware of our disorder. May we see ourselves clearly, and choose new paths.

Bless you all,

Richard

For Sunday March 8th, 2026

Hello once again, beautiful people. At this moment humanity is still burning Mother Earth's skin with pollutants, killing each other for power and profit, and allowing starvation to occur while resources are hoarded.

 
As a general grouping, we are lost.

May we sit this evening asking that Divine Light shine down upon us all, that God's will be done, and we find our way home.

With reverence for all,

Richard

For Sunday March 1st, 2026

Hello to all those who 'look upward' for assistance. Whatever help may be coming from the spiritual realms, it can only have an effect where there is receptivity. Otherwise, nothing gets through.

So it behooves all of us to practice openness, in whatever way we find fitting.

May we sit with loving desire to be used as best suits our positions and talents. May we offer loving hearts, that God's will be done within us and through us.

Bless you all,

Richard

For Sunday February 22nd, 026

Hello to all once more. Fervent prayer comes from a disciplined mind, one which can focus upon a single thing, person, event, or situation, without distraction. It can take years to develop the focused discipline required to set 'monkey mind' aside. Yet it can also arise out of intense, immediate need.

It is possible to increase our sense of immediacy by examining the fullness of a situation when we find something deserving of fervent prayer. Looking into who benefits right now, how that ripples into the future, and all those who will benefit then, can make it extremely important thereby focusing our attention. This expansion of awareness benefits us as well.

May we sit this evening for the greater good of setting our own houses in order. May we employ self-honesty like a scalpel, cutting to the core of our impulses. May we 'know ourselves' clearly, each and every whim of thought and desire as they occur. May we brighten the world from the inside to the out.

Bless you all for all you do,

Richard

For Sunday February 15th, 2026

Welcome and a warm hello to all. As has been noted, it's easy to be a holy man on top of a mountain where temptations are few. Given that most of us don't have that opportunity, perhaps we're meant to do the difficult work of being holy right where we are, in spite of the chaos and stumbling blocks of modern society.

 
It helps to know ourselves. This is not just self-knowledge. It is watching each and every movement of our thought process then, knowing where each one leads us, we choose which to follow and which to discard. In that, it's our honesty which matters.

May we make the effort to be good neighbors and helpers to all we encounter, trusting that honest efforts are righteous, and that we will learn to do better as we go along.

Bless you all,

Richard

For Sunday February 7th, 2026

Hello again, helpful people. Much is made of intentions and the setting of them. But history is full of politicians and shysters who've set very clear intentions which were entirely self-serving, rather than spiritual. So it's not just the setting of intentions but being clear about what our true intentions are.

When there is no hate, when there is no fear, when there is no ambition, when there is no self-concern, then there is love – which is integration with the Divine.

May we sit for our personal clarity this Sunday evening. May humanity gain the enhancement commensurate with our efforts.

Bless you all,

Richard

For Sunday February 1st, 2026

A chilly but heart felt 'Hello' to all. As a group of monks make their way across the nation in a Walk for Peace, let us lend them our energy tonight.

They've run into problems, as can be expected, but are undeterred.

May we lend them the absolute best of ourselves.

With love for all,

Richard

For Sunday January 25th, 2026

Hello, wonderful people. Watching the turmoil in Washington DC and Minneapolis, perhaps it's time once again to petition God to shine its Light down upon all involved. 

With love and reverence for all, may Divine will be done.

With blessings for all,

Richard

For Sunday January 18th, 2026

Hello again, good people. It seems to have come around again to that time where it's appropriate to petition God to shine its Light down upon the arena of our political leaders, the time when human foibles and frailties have overwhelmed the human instinct for compassion and reverence.

 
It's a common theme throughout human history.

So tonight, with kindness and fervency, may we petition God's Light to come down and God's will be done.

With loving blessings for us all,

Richard