A Balanced Perspective

Recently I’ve had the pleasure to be around a relatively newly opened mind, an intelligent and curious spirit, searching the Way along the common quest towards Truth.

It’s one of several we have around here, and the conversations out on the lanai can get quite diverse, let me tell you.

Lots of questions, ideas and link exchanging around the house these days. Lots of rabbit holes and strange twists and turns. Lots of wows, whoas and giggles of newly-found synchronicities. As well, a lot of furrowed brows and crestfallen countenances.

A few ‘don’t go there yet’s and ‘let’s not think about that right now’. That’s from me.

Eventually the mind will lead where it is meant. But it’s important to keep a balance. A mind, newly freed after perhaps decades of standard programming, can be at first horrified at the discoveries it finds, along the journey it never knew it would take.

Not to mention, each individual has their own specific Way along the path, so it is impossible to give direction too specific. Each must Surf their own waves, at their own pace.

That said, it usually doesn’t take long for the realizations to create a seemingly impassable mountain of information, not to mention an overwhelmed psyche. The questions and connections are so deep, it’s hard to stop the momentum of discovery, especially at first.

This is a wonderful place to be. And yet it is also terrible. Terribly wonderful. Wonderfully terrible.

Sometimes it’s important to take a step back and breathe deep, and Know. Sometimes, it’s important to turn off the brain, and tune into the void – Spirit – Whatever: That which isn’t, and yet Is.

There must be an equal experience of joy alongside, however how. Learn the moment of letting go. Because at some point, the impassable mountain becomes a silly little anthill.

And then it becomes a mountain again.

But, Know this: Everything will be all right.

Better than all right.

No matter what They do, They cannot destroy Us, nor sway Us from our Great Path.

We have already won.

Express yourself completely,

then keep quiet.

Be like the forces of nature;

when it blows, there is only wind;

when it rains, there is only rain;

when the clouds pass, the sun shines through.

If you open yourself to the Tao,

you are at one with the Tao

and you can embody it completely.

If you open yourself to insight,

you are at one with insight

and you can use it completely.

If you open yourself to loss,

you are at one with loss

and you can accept it completely.

Open yourself to the Tao,

then trust your natural responses;

and everything will fall into place.

-Tao Te Ching #23

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