October 11, 2024 – A

We have to drop into emptiness (stillness/silence)
on a regular basis
to just breathe
and wait for "the mud to settle and the water to clear,"
and to see what meets us there.

To see what arises there
to catch our eye,
get our attention,
and send us back into the field of action
with a sense of what is called for
to live in the service of what needs to be done
in each situation as it emerges
from the circumstances of our life
with the gifts of our original nature,
our innate virtues (What we do best
and enjoy doing most),
and our intrinsic intuition.

To live this way, 
dropping into the silence (emptiness/stillness)
and rising up into the field of action,
is to follow the path of Tao
in living aligned with the flow of life and being,
at one with who we are
and what is ours to do.

This is balance and harmony,
integrity, sincerity, spontaneity,
without any interest in what is in it for us,
beyond the joy of living like this
and the satisfaction of having done it.

Living at one with the time and place
of our living.

One day at a time.