59\u00a0 bar steady\u00a0 29.77\u00a0 4mph NW\u00a0 dew-point 37\u00a0 Beltane\u00a0 Sunny and cool<\/p>\n
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Want to say a bit more about mastery (or, as Stephan said, maybe it’s anti-mastery) as living into the Self.\u00a0 It has become clearer and clearer to me that I offer more impediments to the Movement of Heaven through me than I do channels.\u00a0 I’m not being modest here, only stating a not too\u00a0 unusual fact.\u00a0 This opening and emptying of the ego so that\u00a0my Self can flow through me out into the world is the big task ahead for me.\u00a0 Yet, it is an ironic task, a task that only be realized in the negation of tasks.\u00a0 It is a goal that has as its objective, an empty vessel and, to compound the irony, an empty vessel that will be filled, but this time not by the culture’s values, but by the values of the movement of heaven.\u00a0 I believe a Taoist might call this finding my place among the 10,000 things.<\/p>\n
I prefer this approach because it negates the notion of mastery as an over and above phenomenon, something that effort can achieve, and opens the way to mastery of the ego by the Self, the larger you that participates in the archetypal realm.\u00a0 Let go and let Self, perhaps.\u00a0 I envision this as a congested field filled with objects of desire and presumed needs suddenly cleared so that the plants natural to the immediate ecosphere can flourish.\u00a0 It is the garden filled with native plants who require no artifice to grow; rather, they rely on the soil that the past has created, the rain a season brings and the sunlight that can reach the soil.\u00a0 Native plants do not care if it is hot or wet or cold and dry, they have developed a lifeway that follows the rhythms of the seasons where they bloom.\u00a0<\/p>\n
How much simpler our life would be if we could open ourselves to the rhythms native\u00a0 to our Self;\u00a0then we would not have to worry about dignity, accomplishment, status or desire.\u00a0\u00a0 We, too, would not care whether it was hot or dry, cold or wet, yet we would act, and act effectively because our actions would shape themselves to the\u00a0 movement of the Tao.\u00a0<\/p>\n
That’s how I see right now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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