April 06, 2024 – A

There are no strategies for gaming the game.
There are only serendipity,
synchronicity,
and fortuity--
all put into play
in the old golfing mantra,
"The more I practice, the luckier I get."

In place of "practice"
we might say,
"The more I put myself in the service 
of my intuition, the luckier I get."

Intuition and the felt sense
(Or the "gut feeling")
are our inner guides
which only seem to come to life
when we come to life ourselves
in taking a chance in the field of action
in the service of what "feels"
like the right thing to do,
but it would take doing it to know.

So we do it and see what happens,
where it goes,
and what may great us as unexpected help
along the way.

It comes down to trusting ourselves
and doing what needs to be done,
and then doing what needs to be done
in response to having done what needs to be done,
in order to see what circumstances
are generated by our actions
in the service of what needs to be done.

But here is the catch.
We do what needs to be done 
for itself alone
and not to get any reward or payoff
for having done it.

We aren't in it for any kind of profit.
We are in it to do what needs to be done
and see where it goes--
which will to do do what needs to be done
about whatever arises from having done
what needs to be done.

The things that need doing
create their own karma
which upholds us and directs us,
sometimes against our will,
in the service of what continues
to need doing.

If we can get ourselves out of the way
and do the things that need to be done,
we will be sustained in the service
of doing what needs doing
in miraculous ways,
not so much as a blessing,
but as encouragement
to continue doing what needs to be done.

We live to do what needs to be done
and not to have it made.
If you can understand that
and do that,
you will have it made.

It helps to be a child of irony
and paradox.  

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