In the Now with the Tao, Day One/ Verse One;

Reread the 1st verse of the Tao and going down to the water with my dogs. When it's at all possible that's where I go to meditate.

Here I am back to record the experience. Let me interject here...this is my experience. It is not to be taken as some univeral truth. I believe that each of us are our own teacher and whatever wisdom that is to be gained in this physical body will come from God within us. You can beilve it however you want. You can call it whatever you want. This is just where my life experience has led me. Try not get hung up on naming the nameless. Which leads us back to the Tao vs.1

"The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao. The name that can be named is not the eternal name. The Tao is both named and nameless. As nameless it is the origin of all things; as named it is the Mother of 10,000 things. Ever desireless, one can see the mystery; ever desiring, one sees only the manifestations. And the mystery itself is the doorway to all understanding."

As I'm walking down to the water my big old yard dog, Buddy, is doing his own thing. He's so carefree. He knows exactly where we're going. He chases a few rabbits along the way and still manages to get there before me and little house dog, Annie. Annie is on a leash because she is small and barky, a combination that makes the other dogs in the neighborhood want to eat her. She is pulling so hard on the leash that she is choking herself. I have to stop at intervals, make her stand still for a moment so she doesn't injure herself. A constant state of pressing forward. HMMM~
vs.1- I've spent alot of my life in that state of "hard press." Name it. Define it. How do I do it? Get it right! Where am I? Am I there yet? Am I doing it right? Hurry up and slow down! HARDER!

I saw myself in Annie today, thought about vs.1, and decided to just let go of the "trying so hard" and allow! Just saying it makes my shoulders sink down away from my ears. I believe in the Great Mystery, a Devine Source, God. That's enough for me. I know God only by experience not by definition. I embrace the mystery. The Universal Source will bring me to all things and all things to me. I've decided it isn't necessary for me to bag, tag, and label everything. In fact anything that you can bag, tag, or label isn't big enough for me. I choose greater, wider, deeper, infinate, eternal! (OH Heck! I almost exploded!) I promised a Bible verse too; (Message Bible Eph.3:20-21"God can do anything, you know— far more than you could ever imagine or guess or request in your wildest dreams! He does it not by pushing us around but by working within us, his Spirit deeply and gently within us." WOWEEWOW! MORE than I can IMAGINE, GUESS, OR ASK in my WILDEST Dreams? Sold! I'll take it!

Wait! Back at the water; I looked across the water at the trees on the bank. The colors were not just green but some reds, golds, browns, and even purples. Those that were green were every shade of green. No grouping up or sectioning off, just sprinkled lavishly across the expanse. So beautiful. I noticed how they all, each and every one made the landscape. Side-by-side they stood all different and all reaching toward the same light. What do you have to "DO" to make such things happen? Don't "DO" anything. Just "BE!" "Let Go and let God." Allow~~~