July 24, 2024 – A

The old Taoists said
"circumstances beget circumstances,"
and it is our place
to respond to what's what here, now,
in ways appropriate to the occasion.

That cannot be spelled out in advance.
We cannot know beforehand what to do
when and where.

We respond to every here, now,
here, now.

To have any success with this process,
we need a strong relationship 
with our intrinsic intuition,
in order to "feel our way along,"
reading the moment,
getting out of the way
with our ideas of what to do,
and relax into our intuition,
doing what arises of its own accord
in a "spontaneous arising" kind of way,
so that we find ourselves acting 
in the field of action
without knowing why,
just being as pertinent 
and as in touch with what is going on
as we are capable of being.
Saying and doing what is called for
as directed from within,
as the moved responding to the mover.

This what intuition is for,
the role intuition is expertly tuned to handle.

With a little practice in getting out of the way,
we come to look forward to seeing
what we will be doing next--
with a nod and a bow to the mover
guiding our boat on its path through the sea.