SHACK 4010 Do’ (道)

THE WAY--- Do’ (道)

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Walk through a wood, branches that have fallen, tree trunks seemingly dead on the moist fertile ground, it is teeming with LIFE, the bacteria and other entities transforming this seemingly dead form into a new life, death begets life and one realises that birth and death are not opposites they are constituents of Life, Life does not have an opposite.

This is the Yin -Yang of life. To fight and resist the Tao (The Way) causes disharmony and not only obstructs the flow of the river of life but of ones well being.

The famous Zen Monk story; Monks who had a meaningful insight went to the mountain and built a small hut or went to a cave. They took some books, food for a stay of several months often in winter, their little wood fire, simple food and quiet. The snow fell, the birds migrated, the leaves and trees bare. The spring came, the birds returned, the flowers began to appear and the trees began budding and the monk spread arms wide and declared, 'all this I didn't do a thing to make it happen'. 

The Monk and me are not aware of the silent processes of the Universe, the Universal Do’ (道) yet for me I resist and try to fathom how is this done and look at charts and NASA stuff and write clever smart arse theories, astrological forecasts often differing with one another,  its Ascension, the natural cycles and maybe it so, who am I to fathom out the mysterious way of The Do’ (道). Who am I to tell the mighty river how to flow and when in it fight against the tide?

I am tired of fighting what Life is really offering and me supposing that I know better. My dear friends who are witnessing the letting go in me offer me advice, they mean well. Your central heating has dried you out, your getting old, numerous herbalists and their theories, take this supplement, do this diet, your depressed and I vainly plead just let me work it out and just lend a listening ear. I am only suggesting they say and I say thanks for caring, BUT can you let me go through the process of giving up to Life to fully surrendering, you should go to see your GP, have you seen this or that and the endless Internet claims and now the Shamans and the New Age wonder therapists. Do all my dearest friends and family share their worries and see me fading away as their problem, their advice to me is their fear of giving up their props?  

I might feel fatigued, in pain, moaning and groaning, YET I have a sense I am losing bits of mind crap and feeling an early seed that is ancient and yet so pristinely new beginning to dawn and that is the Do’ (道 calling to me to trust the invisible WAY, the Way of No Way's to let nature and the Universe do the work as it were and me to be the spectator and relish in the Gift of Life.

SHACK  aka  GEOFF

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