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SOOTHING REALITY OF TAO "Stay silent." Sunrise/Afternoon June 14, 2017

6/14/2017

6:42 AM

SOOTHING REALITY OF TAO
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From Bill Martin
June 13

Stay silent.
Stop listening to trivia.
Stop taking offense.
Stop over-thinking.
From Tao Te Ching, Chapter 56

Silence is an inside job.
The stillest morning in the forest
is filled with rustles, chirps, and whispers.
The refrigerator drones in the quiet.
The fabric in my pants swishes against itself
as I walk up the hallway.
Life is not a quiet experience,
but the mind can be the still point
about which it all turns.
This still point cannot be found
through words, thoughts, or information.
It waits for all of these to fade away.

I had a tooth pulled yesterday
and spent the afternoon in considerable discomfort.
The dentist supplied me with a few codeine-laced pills that I decided to use.
They indeed helped ease the pain,
but the pain relief is not what makes them dangerously addictive.
My racing thoughts settled down and my mind became sweetly quiet,
like a still pond on a breezeless day.

We accuse addicts of looking for a “high,”
but it is the stillness that would hook me.
The engine of my culture depends on the fuel of noisy minds.
That is the reason trivia, fear, and conflict fill every media source from entertainment to sports to politics.
I can’t depend on little white pills
so Lao-Tzu’s advice in chapter 56
becomes a foundation stone for my practice.

William Martin
daybydaytao.org
www.taoistliving.com
http://mailchi.mp/af5242a8c3d4/day-by-day-with-the-tao-1262353?e=e7166a2503

 AFTERNOON ........

A Devastating Ally on the Path
Matt Licata

The next time you feel abandoned, feel it fully.
Let it all the way in this time.
Not the story of abandonment,
but the raw sensations
that have been longing for your holding.

Embrace the shakiness, the brokenness, and the raw life
that is moving through you.
Don’t turn away, not this time.
For you need yourself now more than ever.

There is a portal inside the abandoned one,
buried in her heart, her body,
and in the core of the emptiness.
There is gold there,
but it is hidden and requires new perception to unearth.

In the willingness to bring breath
and to flood the feelings with the warmth of your presence,
you will discover that which has never been abandoned.
Take this one as your lover.

In the commitment to never turn from him or her again,
everything will break open,
revealing the erupting,
tender aliveness at the core.

Even abandonment, when met, allowed, contained, and held,
will reveal its purity,
and clarify its role as a sacred,
though devastating ally on the path.
Matt Licata
http://alovinghealingspace.blogspot.com/2017/06/a-devastating-ally-on-path.html

Great Breather's Peace Sunrise/Afternoon June 11, 2017

6/11/2017

DIVINE GRACE USURPS MINDING-MIND
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From Bill Martin
June 11

In harmony with the Tao, we resist nothing,
therefore conquer everything.
Tao Te Ching #55

If I don’t resist, won’t I be a victim
of every plot and scheme?
Shouldn’t I be always on my guard
lest corrupt and evil people
take advantage of me?

Or shall I stay balanced
and let the energy that would be used against me,
flow around me and expend itself?
Then, when the time is right,
let action flow from the center of my being
sweeping away the obstacles.
and restoring balance and peace.

At the moment I am feeling a bit under the weather,
a slight headache and some stuffy sinuses.
Shall I resist the symptoms, not let illness have the upper hand,
soldier on through?
Or shall I accept the rhythms of my body
and cooperate with its healing work?
I decided to take a nap.
This is, of course, a somewhat trivial example of non-resistance,
but it is illustrative of the main point

Taking a nap was not a capitulation to infectious forces in my body.
It was a considered strategy of balance and cooperation
with the healing nature of life.
Everything that happens is part of a infinitely complex interaction of energies. Non-resistance means accepting this interaction
and seeking to find the center point in the midst of it all
from which to take the most effective action.
William Martin
daybydaytao.org
www.taoistliving.com

AFTERNOON PHOTOS....

Excerpts below in this color font from
Power Animal Blog
Snake Spirit Animal Totem: Transmutation
http://otteronarock.com/snake-spirit-animal-totem-transmutation/

If a dynamic has truly reached an impasse and it is time to move on,
snake teaches also that the process of healing all pain,
including a broken heart,
is undulating in nature.
Sadness and grief will grip us, hold us tight in it’s agony,
and then let us go,
only to grip us again moments later.

We must flow with this painful wave of energy,
and allow ourselves to be consumed by the grip
until eventually the tide lowers and the pain fades.

To deny this process, to numb it with drugs
or avoid it with social distractions
will only delay its ultimate return.
The grief will coil and wait for you, snake-like,
in the base of your spine only to unwind
when you seek the next adventure.

Shake out your shoes before you put them on.
Find the snakes in the grass before they find you.
Learn to move through the pain as snake moves through her skin.
When in the full grips of healing the only thing there is to do
is be with the undulating tides of your inner life.

All other plans and activities must be postponed.

Lie in bed, in the grass, the sand, the mud, and do no more things.
When healing, the phrase
“Don’t just stand there! Do something!”
must change to,
“Don’t just do ‘something‘… stand there.”
http://otteronarock.com/snake-spirit-animal-totem-transmutation/

“The most powerful way to resist evil is to sit with good friends who have turned their faces to God.”
– Rumi

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SINGLE MOMENT OF DOUBLE OUROBOROS GRACE Sunrise/Afternoon June 10, 2017

6/10/2017

SINGLE MOMENT OF GRACE
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SINGLE MOMENT OF DOUBLE OUROBOROS GRACE
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A double ouroboros (two creatures swallowing one another) in alchemy signifies volatility.
Spiritually, it signifies the balance of the upper and lower natures.
double Ouroboros = As noted by Carl Jung, this might be an instance of cryptomnesia.

From Bill Martin:
June 10
In harmony with the Tao, we are like an infant
who has not yet stiffened against life;
whose body is soft but whose spirit is powerful.
From Tao Te Ching, Chapter 55

The infant has not yet learned
to feel separate and afraid.
Hunger and discomfort may arise,
but fear has not yet entered
to constrict the muscles
and infect the mind.

The sage is like an infant.
Illness and death may come,
but the spirit is soft
and the mind is supple
and free of fear.

Qigong and stretching exercises help me stay reasonably soft in my body, despite the inevitable stiffening of age.
It is my spirit that truly needs to find the “sage inside.”
A brittle fearful mind
is the where the real ravages of age
manifest themselves.

An infant has no capacity
to control the environment and insure safety and nurture.
It is completely dependent on the parent
and therefore does not waste energy
stiffening against life.
The sage must have some of the same quality.

Age dispels the life-long illusion of control and returns us
to the knowledge that we are completely dependent
on the Tao,
therefore we are invited not to waste energy
in mental and physical constrictions.

If the conditioned fears of life can be released as we age
we may find we are entering a period
of immense spiritual power,
manifested through a flexible and sensitive spirit.
William Martin
daybydaytao.org
www.taoistliving.com

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Quotes below in this color font are
Whispers from the Holy Spirit
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1992

HOLD WITH ME
DEAR HEART
WHERE THE CRUCIFYING
WORLD CANNOT SEE
WHAT WE ARE
AS ONE

THERE IS ONE
& ONLY ONE PURPOSE
WHICH HAS BEEN SINCE FOREVER….
…& THAT IS
THE INCARNATION OF
NEW LIFE
LEAVING THE FORM TO ME
∞
SIMPLY BE AS IF IT IS SO
BECAUSE
IT IS SO

TALKING ABOUT DIVINE
POWER OR THE PROCESS
OF PURELY BECOMING IT
DRAINS IT IMMEDIATELY
FROM YOU
&
PROVIDES AN
INSTANT VIBRATION FOR
CRUCIFIXION
&
PROJECTIONS
∞

TO HOLD
IN CONSCIOUSNESS
ALL THAT HAS BEEN
DIVINELY GIVEN
AS YOUR UNIQUE TRUTH
WILL ENABLE PERFECTION
TO OUTPICURE IN FORM
MORE QUICKLY
∞
STOP!
CEASE!
ALLOW ALL TO MELT INTO PURE DIVINE
& PERFECTED LOVE
&
ONLY THEN CAN FLESH BECOME WORD

SAVOUR THE SACRED
WITHOUT WORDS OR
EXPLANATIONS
&
ONLY RADIANCE OF
THE LIGHT CAN EXUDE

IF THOUGHTS
CAN BE MELTED
IN SACRED DEPTHS
YOU WILL NOT
HAVE TO CONFRONT
THAT SAME THOUGHT
IN
PHYSICAL FORM

REMAIN IN HOLY QUIET
IN AN EVER-EFFORTLESS CLARITY
THAT DEFINES OTHERS’
PROJECTIONS

∞

THE QUIET DEPTHS
MUST BE
THE ONLY REALITY
AS THE INNER LIGHT
&
NEW LIFE TAKE OVER…
BLINDING YOU TO OTHERS' POSSESSIONS

IF THERE ARE NO VEILS
OR SEPARATION
THERE IS NOTHING FOR
THE WORLD TO ATTACK

ONLY WITH MORE
TOTAL
SURRENDER
WILL TRUTH BE ABLE
TO LIVE YOU

∞

COME GENTLY INTO THIS
OPEN HEART & THERE
YOU WILL FIND
SANCTUARY IN GOD’S ABYSS…
SO INVISIBLY
YOU HARDLY KNOW IT
HAS HAPPENED

AS YOU ARE FINALLY
& TOTALLY
POSSESSED BY ME…
THAT GRACE IS
SUFFICIENT
&
BIRTHS YOUR SOUL

∞

GRACE BIRTHS A SOUL
CO-CREATING THE INCARNATION OF NEW LIFE
Pocket Pearls
Whispers from The Holy Spirit
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1992

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ENSOULED HEART EVERSHINES Sunrise/Afternoon June 8, 2017

6/8/2017

WORDLESS SPEECH & SPEECHLESS WORDS
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To study the self is to forget the self.
To forget the self is to be enlightened
by the ten thousand things.
~ Eihei Dogen, 1200-1253

If you want to do a certain thing,
you first have to be a certain person.
Once you become that certain person,
you will not care anymore
about doing that certain thing.
~ Eihei Dogen, 1200-1253

AFTERNOON..................

from Bill Martin:

June 8

When we see a person,
the Tao is that person.
When we see a mountain,
the Tao is that mountain.
Whatever we see,
the Tao is that.
From Tao Te Ching, Chapter 54

I can believe the Tao is my spouse,
or the magnificent mountain
rising to the sky just east of here.
I can believe the Tao is beautiful.
It’s harder to believe
that the Tao is Donald Trump,
or a meadow strewn with rusted cars
and cast-off refrigerators.
The practice asked of me
is to pay close attention,
look carefully and patiently,
and see the Tao in people
that I do not like,
and in places I would rather
never go.

I don’t have to like everything I see or approve of every happening.
I am free to oppose that which seems unjust
and to support what seems to me to be helpful and compassionate.
It all remains the Tao.

Nothing stands outside the Tao, therefore nothing can oppose it.
This gives me a strange sense of peace.

I could, if certain circumstances arose,
die fighting against oppression and still understand
that both the oppression and my opposition of it are the infinite,
ever-changing, dance that is the Tao.
I am free to support or to oppose.
I am not free, however, to stand outside the Tao to do it.
William Martin
daybydaytao.org
www.taoistliving.com

Thursday, June 8, 2017

« What is harmful for some can be harmless or even beneficial for others.
Some creatures are so familiar with fire that they are not burned.
Snake venom is deadly for human beings,
while on certain animals it has no effect.
Put still more simply, some people cannot tolerate the air (they catch cold)
or the light (it irritates their eyes),
and yet there is nothing better than air and light.

It can be said, then,
that anything human beings consider to be evil is not necessarily so.
It may be disturbing and threatening to them for the time being,
because they are still weak or ill.
What they express about it thus reflects
only their personal views and their resilience;
it is a very relative judgement.
But ask the initiates and their response will surprise you:
because they have learned to make use of evil,
it has become an asset for them.
And how?
They transform it. »

Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov
http://www.prosveta-usa.com/evil-the-perception-we-have-of-it-is-very-relative_2017-06-08

Backyard Pet 11/23/14

Logic can take you through the mundane.
But if you want to know the magic of life,
you need to transcend logic.
Sadhguru
excerpt from:
http://isha.sadhguru.org/blog/sadhguru/spot/passion-for-everything/?utm_source=sadhguru_spot&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=weekly_spot_mailer

(total offering on above link may make you laugh out loud!)

TAO'D ONENESS TRANSFORMS.... Sunrise/Afternoon June 7, 2017 "......become one with the first Cause."

6/7/2017

TAO’D ONENESS
TRANSFORMS ALL IRRITATIONS & POTENTIAL HELLS
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INCREASINGLY FERTILE
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from Bill Martin:

June 7

What is true, is true
and cannot be made false,
however hard we try.
What we learn of the Tao,
can never be taken from us.
From Tao Te Ching, Chapter 54

The truth of who and what I am
has been with me since the beginning.
I sometimes glimpse its existence,
and quickly forget what I saw.
I catch hints of it, waiting
beside me with patient humor.

I feel it within me in moments
of silent peace and also
in the welling up of sobs
at unexpected times and places.
It comes in songs and dances,
visions and sensations,
and declares “True.”

While taking Songing Bird photos, it's "Breakfast Time" where i'm standing.

These brief experiences of Self-awareness
may pass quickly and be replaced
by the hundreds of conditioned ideas of who I am,
what I want, and how I feel.
The truth remains that I know these things
that have come to me in such transient seeming ways.
They can not be taken from me
no matter how vehemently my mind tries to deny them.
I am these things, these few unassailable things,
and I am not the myriad other things I think,
or thought,
I was.
William Martin
daybydaytao.org
www.taoistliving.com

Wednesday, June 7, 2017

Much has been said and written about initiations,
because at different times and in different places on earth
they have taken very different forms.

The fact is that all initiations,
past as well as present,
wherever they take place,
have only one goal: to unite spirit and matter.
Yes, one goal only:
the fusion of spirit and matter,
one could also say,
of human beings and their Creator.

You will ask,
‘But then, if it is only to achieve this single goal,
why are the explanations and methods for reaching it
so varied and numerous?’
It is because the knowledge necessary to realize this fusion
is infinite.

Human beings must place all their means and all the knowledge
they ceaselessly work to acquire, in the service of this one goal:
to unite with the Divinity,
to become one with the first Cause.

REMEMBRANCE ROCK

For as long as they seek something other than that,
they will simply wander along paths that lead them nowhere.

Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov
http://www.prosveta-usa.com/initiations-their-goal-to-unite-spirit-and-matter_2017-06-07

TAO FLUIDITY - "...effortless effort." Sunrise/Afternoon June 5, 2017

6/5/2017

TAO FLUIDITY ENSOULS ALL
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From William Martin
daybydaytao.org
www.taoistliving.com

June 5

Our hearts and minds have
a natural harmony with the Tao;
but distractions are everywhere,
pushing, pulling, shoving,
clamoring for attention.
From Tao Te Ching, Chapter 53

Not one more thing to add
to an overcrowded mind;
not another rung
on the ladder of achievement;
not something else affixed
to the spiritual aura;
not a conquest,
not a victory,
not a mastery.
The Tao is what is there
when these things
have lost their luster.

The paradox I have faced throughout my life
is the effortless effort necessary for a life of natural joy.
Spiritual practices abound.
Many lifetimes can be spent
on so-called mastery of a practice or a path.

It’s seems foolish to believe that the Taoist path is easy, but it is.
Yet the paradox arises when I realize just how enormous
is the accumulation of crap in the synapses of my brain,
and how much willingness is required to patiently release,
one by one,
the stories, desires, and fears.

I begin to see the courage required for me to spend a day,
and hour, or even a minute without a conditioned thought
to distract me from my natural, easy, joyous path.
A paradox indeed.
A wu-wei path;
a path of effortless effort.
William Martin
daybydaytao.org
www.taoistliving.com

Receiving peer approval helps us continue on.
Appearing cool and in control stifles our joy and growth.
We are born naturally creative,
it is our inner healer..."creativity unused becomes fungi".
I experienced my first nail fungus last year.
It takes most people 6 to 8 months to heal a nail fungus and some never do.

Practice playing with passion and freedom
until it is the new normal.

You have always been enough: good enough, kind enough,
smart enough, well enough, pretty enough,
caring enough, generous enough.
Share any shame that you hold to reclaim the energy it is stealing.
7/4/17

From the Desk of Jacqueline Lunger
Psychic Medium, Healer, Spiritual Counselor, Author
www.psychicauthor.com

TAO PERCEPTION....... Sunrise/Afternoon June 2, 2017

6/2/2017

TAO PERCEPTION
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Friday, June 2, 2017

« Do not be ambitious and subject yourself
to exhausting rivalries.
Choose an activity where you have plenty of space,
or are perhaps even alone,
for no one will be able to prevent you from growing.
If you go and plant yourself beside a great tree,
it will complain you are encroaching on its territory.

And what will happen if you venture
into the territory of a wild animal?
Be like a bird instead:
it has a tiny little body, fragile and light, with a tiny beak,
but it also has wings to fly freely in the air.

A bird has no ambition to impose itself on a wild animal;
the only thing it asks for from the Creator is its song, joy and freedom of movement.

True sons and daughters of God are like birds;
they do not want to clear a path through the jungle,
but fly every day in the sky to bring back peace,
light and joy,
which they then share
with all their brothers and sisters. »
Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov
http://www.prosveta-usa.com/birds-symbol-of-a-spiritual-person_2017-06-02

AFTERNOON............

June 2
If we recognize the Tao’s children,
we recognize her,
for She and her children
are one.
From Tao Te Ching, Chapter 52
Wordings that follow in this color font...
from William Martin

Seeking the Tao is unnecessary.
Whatever I see is Tao.
Whatever I touch is Tao.
All that is inside me is Tao.
All that is outside me is Tao.

The Andromeda galaxy is Tao
and the eye that views it in wonder
is Tao.
The light years between
that galaxy and me
are also Tao.
So separation is an illusion.

--
One of my favorite books for children is by Chara Curtis and is titled, All I See Is Part Of Me. That title can be used as a helpful mantra for those times when I feel lost and separated. It reminds me that anything and everything I perceive is a part of me and, conversely, I am a part of everything I perceive.

The illusion of separation remains a “real” illusion for me and I seldom feel,
really feel, myself as a part of All That Is.
No matter.
The inability of my conditioned mind to feel this truth does not alter its reality.
It is a truth that I must practice until it permeates
the quantum nature of my body
and the very neurons of my brain begin to reprogram my awareness
until I actually know that all I see is part of me,
and I am part of all I see.
William Martin
daybydaytao.org
www.taoistliving.com

REAL SILENCE.......ANNULS ALL THAT IS NOT REAL Sunrise/Afternoon May 31, 2017

5/31/2017

PAST & FUTURE MEMORYING
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ANNULS ALL THAT IS NOT REAL
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Nothing real can be threatened.
Nothing unreal exists.
Herein lies the peace of God.
Tara Singh
Nothing Real Can Be Threatened

I think the most essential thing in one's life is silence.
What is silence?
We think if we are quiet, we are silent.
But we must come to silence without desire and wanting,
otherwise we are not silent.
~ Tara Singh

AFTERNOON..............

May 31
All wordings below
from William Martin
See end of post for link

We are all forms
of the formless mystery of Tao.
We are nurtured and sustained by it,
and our form will return to it.
From Tao Te Ching, Chapter 51

The old Zen question,
“What was your form
before you were born?”
Has no logical answer.
My conditioned mind
works its way back in time,
and hits a place beyond which
it cannot go.

The same mind works its way forward,
and again hits a place it cannot go.
But the idea that the consciousness
I see as me, began at birth and will end at death
has no real logic either.
So the answer to the question is…?

So many of our conditioned beliefs about what’s after death,
come from the mind’s attempt to project our present experience of life
into places the projection will not go.
But that does not mean there is no answer to these eternal conundrums.
It simply means that the answer is not available to my conditioned mind.
Even my glimpses of the deeper, “Tao Mind,”
do not provide a logical linear answer.

This deeper Mind does however tell me that the conceit that consciousness begins and ends with this form called, “Bill,” is in error.
Ancient mariners used maps that showed uncharted waters as,
“Beyond here there be dragons!”
That’s what my conditioned mind sees
when it attempts to go where it can never venture.
We’ll see some day.
William Martin
daybydaytao.org
www.taoistliving.com

Breakers Crashing on Rocks at South End of Beach - 5/27/2015

TAO GUIDANCE - UNFETTERING IN/OF/AS WOMB OF TAO Sunrise/Afternoon May 30, 2017

5/30/2017

EMBODIED HEART IN SOUL
CANNOT BE OWNED
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WOMB OF TAO
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May 29
The Tao guides without controlling.
From Tao Te Ching, Chapter 51
All wordings on this post are from William Martin

The guidance of the Tao
is not the kind of guidance I am used to.
I’ve been trained to look for right roads
and wrong roads.
Guidance is supposed to keep my feet
firmly planted on the right ones.
The ever-present guidance of the Tao
is far more subtle, and ultimately
far more useful.
It speaks through every living thing
in every moment of my life,
whispering wisdom my ears
are ill-equipped to hear.
If I truly want this guidance,
I’ll have to pay better attention.

We’re not used to finding guidance
in the passing of a young deer through the underbrush
or in the morning visit of a pair of Ravens.
The movement of clouds across the sky or the flow of traffic on the county road
are simply background events to our minds.
Yet every word, encounter, and event that flows through our day
is part of the web of life.
Tune in to this web.

It’s vibrations are filled with information and wisdom
that help us make choices with greater clarity.
Whatever path we choose is connected to every other path
and guidance is always available if we learn to see and hear.
William Martin
daybydaytao.org
www.taoistliving.com

AFTERNOON........................

May 30

The Tao nurtures us without owning us.
From Tao Te Ching, Chapter 51

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A river does not own the fertile valley
through which its path meanders.
The spring rain does not own
the lilies which spring from its presence.
The entire Cosmos showers me
with blessings akin to the river and rain.

It is a paradox:
I belong to the Earth,
to the Tao,
and to the Cosmos;
yet they claim no ownership.

My belonging is something far deeper
than ideas of possession and title deeds,
controls and claims.
It is the interdependent nature of existence itself.

We’re not used to finding guidance in the passing of a young deer through the underbrush
or in the morning visit of a pair of Ravens.
The movement of clouds across the sky or the flow of traffic on the county road
are simply background events to our minds.
Yet every word, encounter, and event that flows through our day
is part of the web of life.
Tune in to this web.
It’s vibrations are filled with information and wisdom
that help us make choices with greater clarity.
Whatever path we choose is connected to every other path
and guidance is always available if we learn to see and hear.
William Martin
daybydaytao.org
www.taoistliving.com

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EFFORTLESS EASE OF DIVINE GRACE - "...temple of refuge..." Sunrise/Afternoon May 28, 2017

5/28/2017

SOUL EMBODIED HEART
ELIMINATES MATERIAL MAN’S CONCEPT OF PROTECTION
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EFFORTLESS EASE
TRANSPARENT CONDUIT OF DIVINE GRACE
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“We will intuitively know how to handle situations that used to baffle us.
We will suddenly realize that God is doing for us what we could not do for ourselves.”
from AA Promises
http://www.recovery.org/topics/aa-promises/
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Sunday, May 28, 2017

« When you look at the sun, the center of our solar system, try to find the center in you:
your spirit – almighty, wise, omniscient, universal love –
and draw nearer to it every day!
While you remain disconnected from the center, you will be tossed around,
at the mercy of the winds and storms that blow throughout the world.
Of course, you will tell me that your daily tasks force you to leave the center
to go to your activities at the periphery.
Yes, but moving away from the center, when necessary,
does not mean cutting the connection with the center.

On the contrary, the more activities we have in the world – the periphery –
the stronger should be the link with the center, with the spirit.
It is from this center that you receive the energy,
light and peace you need to carry out these activities.
And the sun helps you to maintain the link with the center within you. »

Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov
http://www.prosveta-usa.com/the-sun-helps-us-find-our-own-center_2017-05-28

May 28

Honoring the Tao is neither a duty
nor a test of loyalty.
Every form in the Cosmos honors the Tao
in the simple act of being.
From Tao Te Ching, Chapter 51
William Martin
daybydaytao.org
www.taoistliving.com
(See Read More at end for William's Soothing, Clarifying Comments)

As you provide a temple of refuge for the tired children of the heart to dwell,
the gates to the mandala open and you will see just how relentless love is.
It will never stop sending its emissaries here to find you,
as the ultimate act of mercy and grace,
to remind you of your innocence
and your vast, majestic wholeness.
Matt Licata
excerpt from:
http://alovinghealingspace.blogspot.com/2017/05/if-child-were-to-appear-at-your-door.html
Full article also on Read More at end of this post

AFTERNOON...........................................

to be continued with photo story of what met us in the house after beach time..........................

Following its own "Innate" the new creature headed straight for the pink flowering blossom...

We had already read and posted this quote above in morning photos:

As you provide a temple of refuge for the tired children of the heart to dwell,
the gates to the mandala open and you will see just how relentless love is.

Matt Licata
http://alovinghealingspace.blogspot.com/2017/05/if-child-were-to-appear-at-your-door.html

See Read More below
for more notes and sources

RIVER OF PEACE "...no forcing and no holding back..." Sunrise/Afternoon May 27, 2017

5/27/2017

RIVER OF PEACE
ALONE WITH THE ALONE
EMBODIED HEART IN SOUL
<
ALL IS WELL
EVEN IF MUCH IS SEEINGLY-SEEMINGLY
OTHERWISE…
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2:12 AM-5/27/17

May what I do flow from me like a river,
no forcing and no holding back,
the way it is with children.
–Rainer Maria Rilke

Have you also learned that secret from the river;
that there is no such thing as time?
That the river is everywhere at the same time,
at the source and at the mouth, at the waterfall, at the ferry, at the current,
in the ocean and in the mountains,
everywhere and that the present only exists for it,
not the shadow of the past nor the shadow of the future.
–Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
for more river quotes:
http://www.lilblueboo.com/2016/05/quotes-about-rivers.html

May 27
Some think of life and ignore death.
Some think of death and ignore life.
The follower of the Tao knows death will come,
therefore knows how to live:
without illusions, without fear, without resistance,
and without suffering.
Neither life nor death can disturb this one.
From Tao Te Ching, Chapter 50
By William Martin
more here:
daybydaytao.org
www.taoistliving.com

Saturday, 27 May, 2017 :: 78Nothing in the world
is as soft and yielding as water.
Yet for dissolving the hard and inflexible,
nothing can surpass it.

The soft overcomes the hard;
the gentle overcomes the rigid.
Everyone knows this is true,
but few can put it into practice.

Therefore the Master remains
serene in the midst of sorrow.
Evil cannot enter his heart.
Because he has given up helping,
he is people's greatest help.

True words seem paradoxical.

DailyTao.org
The Book of The Way, Day by Day

GREAT BREATHER'S BREATH ERASES ALL EXCESS Sunrise/Afternoon May 23, 2017

5/23/2017

GREAT BREATHER'S BREATH ERASES ALL EXCESS
<
APPRECIATING ALL
<
INJOYING
NOW
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5:10 AM-5/23/17

In the practice of Tao
we rely less and less
on what is called "information"
until our actions arise from emptiness,
and everything is done naturally.
From Tao Te Ching, Chapter 48

William Martin
daybydaytao.org
www.taoistliving.com

Keep silence, be mute;
if you have not yet become
the tongue of God,
be an ear.
Rumi

Embryonic Respiration:
Now the breath seems to neither rise nor fall, neither open nor close. It is so ultra-slow and soft that if a down feather were held in front of the nostrils, it wouldn't move. Your mind merges with the breath, as though the breath is your entire world. The belly is pleasantly warm.
You are like a mother nurturing her womb with caring, compassionate awareness.
You are breathing like a baby in the womb of creation.
Enjoy as long as you wish
(or if you must look at a clock,
I suggest twenty to thirty minutes).
http://spiritualpaths.net/the-breath-of-tao-by-kenneth-cohen/

1/25/17-Silence of Embryonic Respiration ..."Breath of TAO" ,,,.......(that which is "older than God"

A Great Silence overcomes me,
and I wonder why I ever thought to use language.
Rumi

GRACE AWARENESS "I am only a Loose Garment...." Sunrise/Afternoon March 11, 2017

3/11/2017

This is last OceanSpeak until we return to island, so far as we know, approximately 6 weeks from today..,
dmm/ew

AH!
TAO’S PRIMORDIAL SILENCE IS ALPHA/OMEGA
∞
MIND IS MELTED INTO THE SILENCE
ALLOW SUCH SILENCE TO FOCUS
<
GRACE AWARENESS
UNWAVERING & TOTAL WAY OF BEING
ew
1:35 AM-3/11/17

The beauty of being shattered is how the shards
become our character and our marks of distinction.
This is how we are refined by our pain.
When the storm rips you to pieces,
you get to decide how to put yourself back together again.
The storm gives us the gift of our defining choices.
You will be a different person after the storm,
because the storm will heal you from your perfection.
People who stay perfect and unblemished never really get to live fully or deeply.
You will not be the same after the storms of life;
you will be stronger,
wiser and more alive than ever before!
Bryant McGill
http://us5.campaign-archive1.com/?u=e172077c845333164da25abd8&id=bb0686cdb8&e=0968d832d9

When we follow the Tao,
our actions nurture all things.
We don’t need to attract attention
so people are not distracted.
From Tao Te Ching, Chapter 22

When people pay attention to us,
instead of to their inner selves,
we have done a great disservice,
even though our cause seems significant.
It feels nice,
but helps no one.
Better to be unnoticed,
except perhaps to whisper a word
that comforts, strengthens, truly helps.

Official Loose Garment Designs Photographer - Charley Nieman

May I be permitted once again to take a pot shot at FaceBook?
I admit some benefits can be found in social media,
but reinforcing the desire to be noticed is not one of them.
We are all conditioned to believe that there is benefit in notoriety.
To be noticed is to be validated; taken seriously; appreciated.
As an author I realize that notoriety translates into book sales.
But it is not in keeping with the way the Tao works.
All notoriety is distracting.
It calls attention to the side issues of personalities rather than to the work at hand.
To seek attention is to participate in distraction
and to blunt any message we may want to communicate
March 11.
Bill Martin
www.taoistliving.com

O Beloved!
Hold me in
Your no-opposites Love

O Sweet Silence
Beyond these words
Inhale me forever Home!

Disappeard from praise & blame
I Am Rapturing beyond Rapture

the mad world
of earthbound creatures
must first diagnose
before it can kill

I am only a
Loose Garment
of the Great Breather

All Wordings above... in this color font
are from
GODSEED: The Alchemy of Primordial Memory
Page 77
Dorothea M. Mills/elizabeth walker

See Read More below
for ALL Sunrise & Afternoon photos
at the very last - some fun Cavorts in the yard

PRIMORDIAL MEMORY’S FULL FREEDOM March 10, 2017

3/10/2017

THE ALCHEMY
OF
PRIMORDIAL MEMORY’S FULL FREEDOM
IS
SUFFICIENT
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2:10 AM-3/10/17

Accepting what is, we find it to be prefect.
What seemed distorted is seen as true.
What seemed lacking is seen as abundant.
What seemed worn out is seen as fresh and new.
From Tao Te Ching, Chapter 22

It is the deceit of propaganda
that tells us we are mistaken
when we trust our intuition.
It is the deception of commerce
which suggests that we should buy something
that we apparently didn’t know we lacked.
Nothing new is needed
to make our lives complete

In general, we are not encouraged to trust ourselves.
The truth, we are told, lies somewhere outside of us.
Perfection is always out of reach, something for which we must forever strive.
Pretend for a moment that this is not true.
Pretend that who you are and what you have right now is enough.
Pretend that you are content, creative, and competent.
This perspective is not encouraged by conditioned mind.
Conditioned mind depends on always having something to criticize and fix;
something to keep pushing us to improve.
But true “improvement” comes
from the joy and freedom
of the perfect present moment.
Bill Martin
March 10
www.taoistliving.com

Remembrance Rock - Session or Silence Space on beach in center...secluded behind the dunes

See Read More Below
Additional Afternoon Photos walking north

TAO - "...always at home..." CLOSER THAN BREATH..... Sunrise/Afternoon March 7, 2017

3/7/2017

CLOSER THAN BREATH
IS THE ABSENCE OF ALL QUANDARIES
ew
4:20 AM-3/7/2017

How can we let the Tao be our guide?
It is without form, elusive, vague.
What is there to hold on to? Is it even real?
From Tao Te Ching, Chapter 21

Elusive and vague are not the qualities
I look for in a guide.
I want precise road maps
that show every twist and turn
along the way;
along with concrete assurances
of a pleasant journey,
and a safe arrival.
So why do I let myself be guided
by something like the Tao?
I think its very mystery
makes me trust it.

In an era of empty promises and glib assurances
offered by prophets of every description, sacred and secular,
it is reassuring for me to know that the Tao is an unfathomable mystery.
That it simply offers itself to all living beings as the All;
the basic Life of the Cosmos in which we are forever contained
and of which we are forever a part.
No need for guidance when we are always at home
no matter how far we seem to travel.
March 6
Bill Martin
www.taoistliving.com
http://www.daybydaytao.org/

While the temptation is to spin into resolution,
to find answers to questions,
and to be reborn as quickly as possible,
a new invitation has appeared:
to rest in the dark, rich, pregnant groundlessness.
While it may seem that something is missing here,
it is overflowing with essence.
Matt Licata
Full Article here:
http://alovinghealingspace.blogspot.com/2017/03/an-invitation-into-re-imagination.html

The Tao’s elusiveness prevents it from becoming an idol.
Its vagueness keeps us mindful of the moment
and alert to what is happening now.
From Tao Te Ching, Chapter 21

We love to make idols and invent gods;
sometimes out of jewels and stone,
but usually out of beliefs and fears.
Encasing god with rules and laws
brings a comforting illusion of control;
of knowing who is who,
and what is what,
and how things ought to be.
Following the Tao requires
letting go of knowing who,
and what, and when, and how;
and simply paying attention to the now.

When I was very young I studied theology.
I even received a Master’s degree in it.
Think of that!
I have a Master’s degree in god!
Oh my soul, I’m so embarrassed.
Then I went on to teach theology to others.
Oh dear.
All the while the Tao was flowing on,
carrying me and all other beings in its eternal dance of light and energy;
refusing to be an object of study.
You can see why the label, “Taoist teacher,”
makes me very uneasy indeed.
What we are doing together is not the study of a subject.
It is simply a practice of observing“the Way things work,”
and sharing our experiences.
March 7
Bill Martin
www.taoistliving.com
http://www.daybydaytao.org/

The mind freed of "me" and its desires
is free to move in boundless space
with the silent pulse of the universe.
Rasmesh Balsekar
The Net of Jewels
March 5

BEYOND SOUNDLESS SILENCE "..as aimless as the wind." "...beyond the limits of body and mind." MILESTONE/note March 4, 2017

3/4/2017

REALITY SO REAL
IT CANNOT BE REMEMBERED
WITH MENTAL MIND
<
THE HARA-HEART
WOMB WISDOM & BEYOND

THE SOUNDLESS SILENCE
OF A
PURE CHILD/ANCIENT ONE
&
BEYOND
ew
2:04 AM-3/4/17

Since before time and space were,
the Tao is.
It is beyond is and is not.
How do I know this is true?
I look inside myself and see.
TAO TE CHING #21
Stephen Mitchell translation
http://goodinfection.com/book-quotes-tao-te-ching-lao-tzu/

Let the Tao be present in your life
and you will become genuine.
Let it be present in your family
and your family will flourish.
How do I know this to be true?
By looking inside myself?
He who is in harmony with the Tao
is like a newborn child.
http://goodinfection.com/book-quotes-tao-te-ching-lao-tzu/

Stop thinking, and end your problems.
I alone don’t care,
I alone am expressionless,
like an infant before it can smile.
I alone possess nothing.
I alone drift about,
like someone without a home.
I am like an idiot, my mind is so empty.
http://goodinfection.com/book-quotes-tao-te-ching-lao-tzu/

March 4
Watch life with the openness of an infant
before it learns discrimination.
From Tao Te Ching, Chapter 20

--

We call infants,“innocent,”
because their minds do not grasp ideas;
do not hold convictions;
do not clench an identity;
and do not judge events.
The sage is one whose mind
has returned to innocence.
It retains wisdom,
but grasps nothing.
It remains as open as the sky.
Therefore it welcomes all things.

--

Most adults pride themselves in their ability to discriminate;
between success and failure, good and bad, right and wrong, friend and enemy,
and every other kind of polarity.
As the mind enters the final stage - the “Sage” state - it returns to the openness of infancy.
It is not feeble or senile, but it has room for wonder, joy, and awe.
It has emptied out the musty mental junk - cleaned the attic, so to speak.
It becomes a house filled with joy.
Bill Martin
http://us10.campaign-archive2.com/home/?u=ead6e09ad8c4002b93c920312&id=48e94afd87

www.taoistliving.com

20
Stop thinking, and end your problems.
What difference between yes and no?
What difference between success and failure?
Must you value what others value,
avoid what others avoid?
How ridiculous!

Other people are excited,
as though they were at a parade.
I alone don't care,
I alone am expressionless,
like an infant before it can smile.

Other people have what they need;
I alone possess nothing.
I alone drift about,
like someone without a home.
I am like an idiot, my mind is so empty.

Other people are bright;
I alone am dark.
Other people are sharper;
I alone am dull.
Other people have a purpose;
I alone don't know.
I drift like a wave on the ocean,
I blow as aimless as the wind.

I am different from ordinary people.
I drink from the Great Mother's breasts.
TAO TE CHING #20
Stephen Mitchell Translation
http://acc6.its.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~phalsall/texts/taote-v3.html#20

I’m here to serve life.
I don’t have a mission of my own.
Sadhguru

...live a life that is truly exuberant,
beyond the limits of body and mind.
http://isha.sadhguru.org/blog/sadhguru/spot/live-life-exuberantly/?utm_source=mailchimp&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=dmq-blog

PAUSE DEAREST ONE
MANY TIMES A DAY
INTO THE VAST SOURCE
…THE “NOTHING THAT IS ALL”…
UNTIL THE GREAT PAUSE TAKES OVER
IT IS THAT SIMPLE.

THE BREATH YOU
(AS AN ILLUSORY “ME” THAT PARTICIPATES
IN AN ILLUSORY DREAM IN THE DRAMA LIFE THAT SURROUNDS)
WASTE TRYING TO CHANGE OR RESIST THE DREAM
IS THE VERY SOURCE THAT CARRIES YOU INTO
THE GREAT NOTHING THAT IS ALL.
SIMPLY SHIFT AWARENESS TO INNER CORE AND DISAPPEAR
FROM ALL WORDS AND THOUGHTS.
UTILIZE THE SAME BREATH, THE SAME GREAT SOURCE,
TO CARRY YOU INTO INNER CORE….
WHERE THERE IS NEVER A WORD OR A THOUGHT.

BE STILL AND KNOW THAT I AM GOD
BE STILL AND DISAPPEAR TO ALL THAT IS NOT REAL
<
THE VAST PEACE THAT PASSETH EARTHLY UNDERSTANDING IS THEN
ALL THAT IS.
∞
ew
2:45 AM-12/6/14

For unless a man’s unconscious life is involved in his redemption,
how little in him will be permanently altered.
How heavy will be the shadow he casts
and
how opaque he will be to transmit
God’s Grace to others.
Douglas Steere

(saved in heart since Quaker Boarding H.S).
Scattergood Friends School
West Branch, Iowa
http://scattergood.org/

See Read More Below for
Milestone: dmm/ew note

TAO SILENCES ALL "THE HOLY MAN" QUIET ANSWER Sunrise/Afternoon March 1, 2017

2/28/2017

TAO SILENCES ALL
YET IS ALL - SOURCES ALL
IT IS WITHOUT PREACHING/TEACHING DOGMA OR EDICTS
<
THE CESSATION OF:
SEEKING & YEARNING
IMPRISONMENT OF ANY KIND
THE TAO CANNOT BE SOUGHT OR EXPLAINED
ONLY REALIZED
<
DANCED IN/OF/AS ALL
&
ALL THAT IS NOT
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3:16 AM-3/1/17

too much death
too much chaos
too much knowing/unknowing
in all dimensions
to comprehend

ONLY THE VAST TAO WITHIN
ANCHORS SAFELY & PERFECTLY…
MAINTAINING GENUINE BEING
BEYOND WORDS/THOUGHTS DENSITIES
<
UNDULATING/STILLING
CREATION’S NATURAL CURRENTS
ew
7:30 AM-3/1/17

RESURRECTED ONES' FORMER POLARIZED WIRINGS
NOW LUMINOUS UNDULATING PARTICLES
EACH IN MOTION OF A DOUBLE OUROBOROS
<
A GENTLE KALEIDOSCOPIC FLOWING
OF ALL THAT IS
(WAS, OR CAN BE)
A RAINBOW OF INFINITE COLORS
AS IN
TAO’S
‘OLDER THAN GOD’
ew
3:07 AM-7/17/16
from:
http://dorotheamills.weebly.com/oceanspeak-and-more/resurrected-one-luminous-undulating-particles-milestone-sunriseafternoon-july-17-2016

We will always hear the Answer
when we become as quiet
as
the Answer Itself.
Hugh Prather
Shining Through

http://dorotheamills.weebly.com/oceanspeak-and-more/the-quiet-answer-sunriseafternoon-january-25-2015

We are the Quiet Answer
When we become more Quiet than the Answer Itself.
ew
1987

The Holy Man
http://dorotheamills.weebly.com/oceanspeak-and-more/october-17a-2012-simplyno-mind-to-mind-afternoon

Stop trying to be holy.
Stop making rules for behavior.
Stop demanding that people behave according to your wishes.
Stop seeking privilege and profit.
Stop trying to be clever.
If you stop these fruitless pursuits,
people will naturally find kindness, compassion,
and right action arising in their hearts.
From Tao Te Ching, Chapter 19

I sometimes think that,
if I were clever enough…
and if I were good enough…
and if I were powerful enough…
then I could make everything better.
But I know I would only make things worse.
It is always the case.
Healing will occur when I stop interfering.
Freedom will arise when I stop clutching
to ideas and desires.

The desire to “do good” is ubiquitous in human society.
That desire is wedded, however, to a subtle impulse to control;
to make other people behave as we think they should.
It appears in every level of society and of personal relationships,
but of the places I have noticed it the most over they years is in the relationship between parent and child.
“I only want what is best for my child,”
is a refrain I have heard throughout my life.
Yet it is a sentiment that easily covers a multitude of control issues:
“so its only normal that I should teach him to…
go to college, get a good job, marry a nice person,
make money, mow his lawn, etc, etc, etc.”
How’s it been working for us?
Bill Martin
www.taoistliving.com

Throw away holiness and wisdom,
and people will be a hundred times happier.
Throw away morality and justice,
and people will do the right thing.
Throw away industry and profit,
and there won't be any thieves.

If these three aren't enough,
just stay at the center of the circle
and let all things take their course.
Tao Te Ching #19
Written by Lao-tzu
From a translation by S. Mitchell
http://acc6.its.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~phalsall/texts/taote-v3.html#19

YOU ARE TRULY FREE
ONLY WHEN THE FEAR OF SUFFERING.NO LONGER EXISTS..
Sadhguru
https://www.innerengineering.com/online/free-meditation-on-demand

Attempting to Control Others Attracts More to Be Controlled...
It is easy to understand how you would come to the conclusion
that your path to feeling good is through influencing
or controlling the behavior of others.
But as you attempt to control them (through influence or coercion),
you discover that not only can you not contain them -
but your attention to them brings more like them into your experience.
You simply cannot get to where you want to be
by controlling or eliminating the unwanted.
---Abraham

Remberance Rock

The Holy Man
Long, long ago, there lived a Holy Man so good
that the astonished angels came from heaven
to see how one could be so godly.

He simply went about his daily life radiating love
as the star diffuses light and the flowers perfume
without even being aware of it.

Two words summed up his day.
He gave, and he forgave.
Yet these words never fell from his lips;
they were expressed in his ready smile,
and in his kindness, love and goodwill.

The angels said to God,
“Oh Lord, grant him the gift of miracles!”
God replied, “I consent; ask what he wishes.”
“What do you desire then?” cried the angels.

“What can I wish for?” asked the Holy Man, smiling.
“That God give me His grace,
with that should I now have everything?”

The angels insisted,
“You must ask for a miracle, or one will be forced upon you.”

“Very well,” said the Holy Man,
“that I may do a great deal of good without ever knowing it.”

The angels were greatly perplexed.
They took counsel together and resolved upon the following plan:
Every time the Holy Man’s shadow should fall behind him, or at either side,
so that he could not see it,
it should have the power to cure disease, soothe pain, and comfort sorrow.

And so it came to pass.

When the Holy Man walked along,
his shadow on the ground,
on either side or behind him,
made arid paths green,
caused withered plants to bloom,
gave clear water to dried-up brooks,
fresh color to pale little children,
and joy to unhappy mothers.

The Holy Man simply went about his daily life
pouring forth love
as the star diffuses light and the flower perfumes
without ever being aware of it.

And the people,
respecting his humility,
followed him silently,
never speaking about his miracles.

Little by little,
they came even to forget his name,
and called him only

”The Holy Man.”

from
Songs of God
Joseph Murphy

AMNESIA LIFTING - PIERCED BY TAO'S BREATH RUMI'S LANCED BOIL Sunrise/Afternoon February 25, 2017

2/24/2017

AMNESIA LIFTING
<
INNER CORE PREVAILS
AS ALL THAT WOULD BE NAMED POISON
IS WELCOMED AS RELEASE

RUMI’S LANCED BOIL*
PIERCED BY TAO'S BREATH
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1:51 AM-2/25/17
*See Read More after last photos

Before you pierce an abscess with a knife
how can it heal
and how can you regain your health?
Rumi

Your situation is agonizing now
but it will free you from what has been blocking you.
Eryk Hanut
The Rumi Card Book

For "More" re: this theme
See:
http://dorotheamills.weebly.com/oceanspeak-and-more/the-abscess-is-pierced-sunrisenoon-february-8-2014
http://dorotheamills.weebly.com/oceanspeak-and-more/divine-intervention-born-with-wings-sunriseafternoon-january-20-2017
+
Read More
after last photos this afternoon

When our mind is still and quiet,
we are open and non-judgmental.
We know that we belong and we act accordingly.
We are ready for all life brings, including death.
From Tao Te Ching, Chapter 16

Bill Martin
http://www.daybydaytao.org/
www.taoistliving.com

A still and quiet mind
is an open and accepting mind.
It is not tossed about
by waves of fear,
by tides of desire,
or by winds of change.
It senses the Web of Life
and feels the connections that exist
between every part of the Cosmos.
It knows that being lost, forgotten,
abandoned, or forsaken
is impossible.
So it is free to act
with power, joy, and love.

What stops me from doing the kind, generous,
and courageous acts that arise so naturally in my spirit?
- My fearful mind that tells me stories of injury, loss, and even death.
- My wanting mind that tells me to go get the things I want
and let others worry about themselves.
- My “monkey mind” that keeps me in a state of Attention Deficit Disorder
through its inane chatter.
But my quiet mind is my natural mind and it always brings me back to myself.
Bill Martin
www.taoistliving.com

Empty your mind of all thoughts.
Let your heart be at peace.
Watch the turmoil of beings,
but contemplate their return.

Each separate being in the universe
returns to the common source.
Returning to the source is serenity.

If you don't realize the source,
you stumble in confusion and sorrow.

When you realize where you come from,
you naturally become tolerant,
disinterested, amused,
kindhearted as a grandmother,
dignified as a king.

Immersed in the wonder of the Tao,
you can deal with whatever life brings you,
and when death comes, you are ready.
Tao Te Ching #16
Stephen Mitchell Translation
http://acc6.its.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~phalsall/texts/taote-v3.html#16

Ignore those that make you fearful and sad,
that degrade you back towards disease and death.
Rumi

See Read More Below
for
more Rumi

CORE OF CREATION PEACE "Hope is as hollow as fear." Sunrise/Afternoon February 16, 2017

2/15/2017

THE CORE OF CREATION
<
NEVERBORN/NEVERDIE
FORMLESSNESS IN FORM
<
BEYOND ALL PRECEPTS/CONCEPTS/ PERCEPTIONS
<
PEACE
ew
1:34 AM-2/16/17

Success is as dangerous as failure.
Hope is as hollow as fear.

What does it mean that success is a dangerous as failure?
Whether you go up the ladder or down it,
your position is shaky.
When you stand with your two feet on the ground,
you will always keep your balance.

What does it mean that hope is as hollow as fear?
Hope and fear are both phantoms
that arise from thinking of the self.
When we don't see the self as self,
what do we have to fear?

See the world as your self.
Have faith in the way things are.
Love the world as your self;
then you can care for all things.
Tao Te Ching #13
Stephen Mitchel Translation

http://acc6.its.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~phalsall/texts/taote-v3.html#13

Don’t be concerned with success or failure.
Don’t worry about your health and safety.
From Tao Te Ching, Chapter 13
Bill Martin Translation

All parents want their children to be:
successful, healthy, and safe.
Has, I wonder, this desire
led to peaceful, joyful,
satisfied and loving children?
What do we really want;
for them, and for ourselves?
Lives of harmony and love.
Lives of courage and devotion.
Lives of dancing and singing.
Lives that take the roads least traveled.
Lives well spent in simple pleasures.
Lives that return more than they receive.

It is so very easy to learn and to teach self-protection to an extreme degree.
A small part of it is instinctual -
the natural ability of an organism to protect itself.
But most of what we learn is artificial,
a manufactured fear that keeps us in line, toeing the mark,
and obedient to the rules.
If we’re good and prudent we will be rewarded.
So life unfolds surrounded with anxiety and tension.
Brave and creative actions are dismissed
before they are fully formed for they are always, “unsafe.”

Billions are spent on “insurance” against the inevitable in life
and we go to our graves
huddled against the darkness which,
if we were to venture out into it,
would be discovered to be Light Itself.
Bill Martin
http://www.daybydaytao.org/
http://www.taoistliving.com/

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