NATURAL LAW

"Do you think you can take over the universe and improve it?
I do not believe it can be done.
Everything under heaven is a sacred vessel and cannot be controlled. Trying to control leads to ruin. Trying to grasp, we lose.
Allow your life to unfold naturally. Know that it too is a vessel of perfection. Just as you breathe in and breathe out, there is a time for being ahead and a time for being behind; a time for being in motion and a time for being at rest; a time for being vigorous and a time for being exhausted; a time for being safe and a time for being in danger.
To the sage all of life is movement toward perfection, so what need has he for the excessive, the extravagant, or the extreme?"
29th Verse of the Tao

As I read and re-read this verse from the Tao, I am reminded that this has become the age of "instant manifestation/gratification". We are an anxious society. We are working longer, spending less time on re-charging our batteries, many of us are on some form of anti-depressants to help us just "make it through the day". We are on a perpetual power trip. Feeling superior is a human creation. The squirrel doesn't feel it is superior to the mole because it lives high in the treetops. This isn't considered high priced real estate. The mole doesn't feel imposed upon because her home is deep in the ground. There is no envy in nature.

"Everything under heaven is a sacred vessel." This means that it is already perfect. We fail to recognize the perfection of nature because we like to think that nature depends upon our approval.

Our lives are chaotic because we have forgotten our place in the scheme of things. Everything that shows up in our life is there to point us in the direction of our life's purpose - though at the time we may not recognize it as such. All events are perfect, exactly as they are.

It is our ego (edging God out) that perceives events to be negative or positive. All events simply "are what they are" when we continually label events we lose the real message of what the moment is trying to teach us.

The ego dominated mind tries to protect us from the pain by insisting that you can eliminate some aspects of your life that you don't like.

Where does the learning come in? Will we be selective about what comes our way?
Perhaps this is why we are so out of balance, individually and collectively.

The ancients realized that everything, that is everything is unfolding exactly, perfectly as it should. Even if our ego's perspective tells us a different story.

How much are you really willing to let go of today - at this moment. Take an inventory. Include past experiences that you've blamed for preventing you from having abundance, health or happiness that you wanted and even expected.

Begin today by becoming conscious of surrendering, and allowing your world and everyone in it to do exactly what they need to do without judging, condemning or correcting their behavior. By doing so you will create a natural sanctuary for the Tao to just flow in and through your life.


"To everything there is a season and a time for every purpose under Heaven"

Woman with Flower

I wouldn't coax the plant if I were you.
Such watchful nurturing may do it harm.
Let the soil rest from so much digging.
And wait until it's dry before you water it.
The leaf's inclined to find its own direction;
Give it a chance to seek the sunlight for itself.

Much growth is stunted by too much prodding,
Too eager tenderness.
The things we love we have to learn to leave alone.

Naomi Long Madgett