October 27, 2023 – A

It's all a matter of chance.
What we do with it
is what matters.

What we do with the moment,
with the day,
with our life...

With what pilots our boat
on it path through the sea.

Having our way
and getting what we want
is one way to do it.

Seems to be the most popular
over time
through the ages. 

That's what got Adam and Eve
out of the Garden of Eden,
and it's been the driving force
behind kings and despots ever since.

What does wanting know?
Who cares?
We let wanting/willing/having to have
run the table,
and here we are.
Wondering what to want next--
as though wanting knows.

Wanting only knows what it wants to happen.
It has no time for what needs to happen.
And none of the discipline required
to do what needs to be done
at the expense of what it wants to do.

Unrestrained, unrestricted, wanting
is the end of the world.
Every world.
All worlds.

We have to learn to take No for an answer,
and to give No for an answer,
in the right place,
at the right time,
in the right way.

By listening in the silence,
and knowing what we know,
and doing what is called for
regardless of what we want,
or how we wish things were,
time after time.

Trusting the silence
to guide our boat
on its path through the sea
is optimal way 
of getting from here to there,
especially when 
we don't know where we are going.

Playing the Yes? No? Game 
with the silence
is one way of practicing
listening to the silence.

Since it's all a matter of chance,
why not take your chances with the silence?
And if the Yes? No? game 
gets you in a corner,
keep playing it to get
out or the corner!

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