Waiting for the light to show the way is waiting for the mud to settle and the water to clear. And is the essential feature of the spiritual journey. Which is not much of a journey at all, merely waiting to see what is called for, what needs to be done, in each situation as it arises and then doing it, no matter what, day by day, our entire life long. We can believe anything we want to believe as long as it enables us to do what needs to be done here/now day by day. Doing here/now is being here/now day by day. The old Gnostics had a saying, "One book opens another." Action leads to realization realization leads to action and that is the spiritual journey. Waiting/Seeing/Hearing/Knowing/Doing all the way.
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“Waiting without waiting” is described as the essential attitude for welcoming everything that comes to us- where we wait, but we are not eager (as in extending our expectations, hopes or desires to grab whatever is coming next).
Waiting without really waiting is a readiness to receive whatever happens to show up! Essentially what you point to, when you describe the spiritual journey here. Practically, it is exactly “being here/now day by day”.
An important reminder and a beautiful image, Thank you!
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Thanks for the phrase, “waiting without waiting”! It could also be phrased, “Waiting not waiting,” like “doing not doing,” or “doing without doing,” or “caring not caring,” etc. It all applies to the attitude of being present with awareness, receptivity and accessibility to anything/whatever happens, and responding to it in ways appropriate to the occasion, which makes everything both “God’s will” and “The stone that was rejected” simultaneously being “the chief cornerstone,” and everything being just what we need here/now, and nothing needing to be thrown away ever… It is wild how everything is paradoxical and contradictory, like yin/yang and oneness at the bottom of the pile, which makes no sense and is clearly exactly how things are–and we can only receive it with laughter and dance with it all the way around the circle of life, though being may be only a small fragment of the entire circle!
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“It is wild how everything is paradoxical and contradictory” YES!! I am noticing more and more of such “paradox” everywhere, and suspect that a lot in reality is mind-boggling for our limited human intelligence.
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And, from one point of view, it is amazing watching/waiting to be amazed again, as with a celestial fireworks show on an experiential/existential moment-by-moment level of WOW! WHAT’S NEXT?
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