Yin and Yang
A Recovery Blog
This blog is about my continuing recovery from severe mental illness and addiction. I celebrate this recovery by continuing to write, by sharing my music and artwork and by exploring Buddhist and 12 Step ideas and concepts. I claim that the yin/yang symbol is representative of all of us because I have found that even in the midst of acute psychosis there is still sense, method and even a kind of balance. We are more resilient than we think. We can cross beyond the edge of the sane world and return to tell the tale. A deeper kind of balance takes hold when we get honest, when we reach out for help, when we tell our stories.
Sunday, October 18, 2026
Saturday, October 17, 2026
Friday, October 16, 2026
Why I Chose To Die On The Cross
Why I Chose To Die On The Cross
Once I was very poor
Very poor
In Palestine
And all of the people
Were very poor
In Palestine
Except the 3%
With the Romans
And they taxed us
Three times
Taking 40%
And we were starving to death
We were starving to death
Some dying
On the cross
In plain sight
For all to see
Why did I
Choose to die
On the cross?
I wanted to die
On the cross
With the souls
Who were suffering
The most.
They were all
Gods
People
On the cross
All God’s people
As were the Romans
And the “royal” House Of Herod
And the Sadducees
And the Pharisees
With their sicknesses
Their power
And greed.
All Gods People
Forgive them
Mother and Father
For they know not
What they do
Not then
And not now.
No Adam, No Eve
No Adam, No Eve
No Adam, No Eve
No Tree Of Knowledge
No serpent, no apple
No expulsion from Eden
Man Betrayed the Woman
Through his greater strength
And aggression
And made it into
A Law of God
As if it were righteous
And good.
And gave himself
Dominion over the earth
Which he began
To destroy
Through territoriality
Through violence
Through killing
If Moses existed
And God gave him the command
Not to kill
It would have been
A very great blessing
For this world
And have led us
To Peace on Earth.
But men modified
The meaning
To give themselves
The “Chosen” ones
The right to kill.
O, men of the world
It was your ancestors
Who betrayed
Our Higher Power
Then and now.
Making their lies Holy
And put down in scriptures
In laws to follow
These “Holy” men
Were not Holy
In Palestine
And Babylon
They were the elite
And were not starving
And destitute
Like most of the
Jewish People
In Palestine
Then.
The First Human Beings
The First Human Beings
The first human beings on Earth
Were from Africa
Were from Africa
The Mother Continent of us all.
And the first human beings on Earth
Had beautiful dark skin,
Not light colored.
Why won’t we honor
Our beginnings
And honor the God
Of us all?
Sunday, October 11, 2026
The Sixth Commandment Of The Ten Commandments
THE SIXTH COMMANDMENT
The sixth Commandment of the Torah is: Thou Shalt Not Kill. Which means no killing people or animals. Yet, sick, clever men (teachers of "The Law") changed the word "Kill" to "Murder" in accordance with their will to legitimize killing for some as "legal" and other killing as "morally" wrong. They didn't and don't even stop for a second to consider that God meant no killing, period.
Mentally ill human men's interpretation has allowed for thousands of years of war and kept and keeps violence as "righteous" when it suited or suits them.
And if they have been wrong all this time since Moses? And if being non violent had been practiced as something sacred and Holy? What would our world (God's beautiful Eden planet) be like now? Is our way of accepting violence "Holy" and God's way foolish, o wise men, wise "teachers of the law"?
Friday, October 9, 2026
Wednesday, October 7, 2026
A Wonderful Book Everyone Should Read
Jesus the First Chasid : The Hidden Thread Between Galilee and Hasidism
Jesus was not the first Chasid, he believed the Pharisees had mental illness. He did not believe in sin and judgment and the existence of hell. He believed that people were mentally ill and suffering and wanted them to believe in a God that loved all people and wanted peace and love for all the world.
Baal Shem Tov may have been one of the first Jewish teachers (who did follow, and still follow, the sickness of the Pharisees) to try to follow Jesus and his message of love for all people, especially the poor, uneducated, suffering people that he had contact with.
Monday, September 28, 2026
Reaching Out To Christians
https://www.youtube.com/@JesusCalling-Wanderer62
YouTube Channel - Jesus Calling - Wanderer62
First of all I hope everyone is in a good place in this moment. Second, it is totally fine if you totally reject my belief in who I once was. That is not the point and who I am is not that important. What is important is that people from around the world consider what I am saying, creating a new perspective on the man Jesus and his spiritual orientation that connects him to the wisdom of the Buddha, both believing in peace and love as a spiritual practice all people must take on in whatever orientation you have as long as you believe that your idea of a Higher Power is based on Love, Health, Peace, Healing and Sanity.
Today I subscribed to a Christian pastor and writer’s YouTube channel. Many followers, many videos, a great deal on the Old Testament in many videos. I scanned the videos looking for ones focusing on Jesus and some of his message but there were not many which I found surprising. I did find one video where the pastor was answering the question: Is Love A Feeling Or A Choice? I wound up leaving a long comment on my perspective on Jesus. I read it into my digital voice recorder and transferred the audio file to a new and wonderful app called SpeakNotes that can transcribe audio into words very quickly and mostly accurately. It also has a multi functioning AI program. It can actually create a blog from one’s transcript which often is really well done but unfortunately inaccurate and can be misleading. It can also make summaries and notes, some of which are quite good and even help me to learn about my subjects. It is also a global app and can translate a lot of different languages. I highly recommend it .
Below is my edited transcription of my comment on the Christian YouTube channel and video. After the transcription I have included the AI summary note which is quite accurate and I hope helpful to any of you out there.
Good Luck! And however you believe in Higher Power, God Bless you all.
Peace!
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Hello David, I just subscribed to this channel and I’m starting to explore it. I follow Jesus and I follow Buddha before him, both amazing teachers of Love and the spiritual practice of Love. To me the most important thing Jesus said, and I believe commanded, Love your enemies, which essentially means Love (agape) everyone, no exceptions, and totally follows Buddhist teachings about loving, compassion, for everyone, as a spiritual practice that requires discipline beginning with loving those who are easier to love, then people you like, then people you feel neutral about, then people you dislike, and ultimately people you hate, basically transforming the practice of prejudice and hatred in the world into a worldwide practice of Love.
Jesus, as a Jewish man during the Roman rule, did, I believe, start out practicing the two commandments from the Torah (Old Testament) but through his deep faith in God the Father as a God of total Love for everyone modified the second Jewish commandment and greatly expanded it from loving those who are easier to love (neighbors) to loving everyone, with no exceptions. That was his main commandment that most Christians do not follow. They follow more of the Old Testament commandments. Some try to expand the idea of who to consider as “neighbors”, but that is not good enough. It wasn't good enough during Jesus' life, and it is still not good enough. Matthew 5:46 “For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have?” Matthew 5:47 “And if you greet only your brothers, what more are you doing than others?” Basically saying, be like God and love everyone.
Yes it is hard and requires discipline and daily practice, but Jesus never said spiritual devotion would be easy. He sacrificed his life in the name of peace and love. And called all people to be that devoted to peace all over the world. Which is desperately needed now during this age of climate change, which we as a human species have brought on since the Industrial Revolution through our collective illnesses. I do not believe in the human idea of “chosen people”, which still causes incredible conflict, war, destruction, and devastation, and has nothing to do with the practice of loving your enemies, everyone. I believe that God is the same God for all people on this planet, however they interpret it.
The main point from Jesus is to believe that God is a God of Love. He rejected the Old Testament God of love and hate, judgment/punishment/prejudice, “chosen people” and embraced God as totally loving of all the sick people on this planet. Jesus, like Buddha, was one of the most famous promoters of pacifism. If people had followed his main commandment that we love each other the world would most likely be embracing peace with no tolerance for war of any sort for any reason. Violence, prejudice, judgment is all from human mental illness and not from the Higher Power and Jesus saw that so clearly and tried to teach about it, but his message was distorted, taking the focus off total love of ourselves, each other and God. It is very distressing to me that Jesus’ main message, teaching, commandment has been ignored all these centuries. Most Christians do not follow Jesus and his message of practicing love for all people and God, for peace on earth as the main focus and spiritual practice for all the people on the planet, regardless of which religion or orientation, as long as the core of their belief is focused on Love.
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AI generated Note summing up my transcript with the SpeakNotes App for transcribing audio files.
The Radical Commandment Of Universal Love
The central message of Jesus, much like the teachings of the Buddha, centers on the spiritual discipline of universal love and compassion. This practice is not passive; it is a rigorous progression that begins with those easiest to love and eventually extends to neutrals, enemies, and those we find most difficult. By interpreting 'Agape' as a command to love everyone without exception, we move beyond the limited 'neighbor' concept found in traditional interpretations. This radical inclusivity seeks to transform the human tendency toward prejudice into a global practice of compassion.
Historically, Jesus' message expanded upon the Torah by removing the boundaries of tribalism and 'chosen people' narratives, which often lead to conflict and devastation. The speaker argues that many modern religious practices have distorted this message, reverting to judgment and exclusion rather than the total pacifism Jesus exemplified. Embracing God as a source of absolute love—rather than a deity of punishment or preference—is presented as the necessary cure for the mental and spiritual illnesses that lead to human suffering and environmental destruction. In an age of global instability, returning to this core commitment of love for all people, regardless of creed or orientation, is viewed as the only path toward true peace on earth.
Key Points:
- Practice love as a progressive discipline, moving from friends and neutrals to enemies and those who evoke hatred.
- Recognize Jesus' commandment to 'love your enemies' as a radical expansion of the law, demanding love for all humanity without exception.
- Reject the 'chosen people' narrative in favor of a universal God who loves all people equally, which serves as an antidote to war and religious conflict.
- Adopt pacifism and total compassion as the primary spiritual practice to combat global human-driven crises like climate change.
- Differentiate between the human tendency toward prejudice and the 'Higher Power's' nature of unconditional love.
- Acknowledge that true spiritual devotion requires the hard work of daily practice, rather than simple adherence to exclusionary traditions.
Sunday, September 27, 2026
New YouTube Channel - Jesus Calling - Wanderer 62
Just a heads up. I just created a YouTube Channel called - Jesus Calling - Wanderer62
If you want to hear my audio easily just go to that channel. Subscribe if you’re willing. Wishing the whole world all the best.
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