Finding our way to The Way one situation at a time. I don't know how great it will be, but I expect it will be interesting, and I look forward to it going on past all reason because wonder is just that way. Are you coming or not?
Tupper Lake Sunset 2015 — Adirondack Park, Tupper Lake, New York
The natural world just happens according to the rhythms and circumstances of nature, with everything settling into its role commensurate with its needs and its possibilities.
The "civilized" world is prone to war, revenge, revolt, renunciation, repudiation, getting even, paying back, making sorry and being in control.
The foundation and thrust of Taoism/Zen (Zen is Taoism with appreciation for enlightenment) is the return to doing things naturally.
One Taoist spokesperson, Zhuangz, said, “To be free, individuals must discard rigid distinctions between good and bad, right and wrong, and follow a course of action not motivated by gain or striving. When one ceases to judge events as good or bad, man-made suffering disappears and natural suffering is embraced as part of life.”
I'm retired, and still finding my way--but now, I don't have to pretend that I know what I'm doing.
I retired after 40.5 years as a minister in the Presbyterian Church USA, serving churches in Louisiana, Mississippi and North Carolina. I graduated from Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary, in Austin, Texas, and Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana. My wife, Judy, and I have three daughters, five granddaughters, one great granddaughter, and a great grandson on the way, within about ten minutes from where we live--and are enjoying our retirement as much as we have ever enjoyed anything.
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