July 15, 2024 – A

Living to get/have what we want
is a waste of time and life.

Better to be who we are,
doing what is ours to do--
which puts us on the track
of reflecting on who we are
and what is ours to do,
which sits us down in the emptiness,
stillness and silence,
listening, looking, waiting
for realizations to occur, arise, emerge
in the areas of our original nature,
our essential/innate virtues
(The things we do best and enjoy doing most),
and our intrinsic intuition.

Our role is to develop our connection/
relationship with our nature,
our virtues,
and our intuition,
and allow these aspects of who we are,
direct us along the way,
guiding our boat on its path through the sea.

We listen/look for direction
in knowing/doing what needs to be done
with our life
and in each situation as it arises,
all our life long.

We listen, see, do.
"Waiting for the mud to settle
and the water to clear"
between our engagements on the field of action.

Someone should have told us this
in the fourth grade.