Listening To My Inner Yoda
Feb. 17th, 2011 07:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cedar_groveFrom The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have.
Like so many other tasks that await us, the reward is hardly what we imagine. It seems that Lao-tsu reveals to us a secret tool of living, kept secret by our unwillingness to accept its truth. This ancient sage tells us quite openly that the act of simplicity-of living directly-is the doorway to the Source of all being.
Imagine if this is true. I implore you, when feeling lost or far away, try it-try being direct-and the Universe without a word will come alive.
The last time I can remember anything being direct, simple and uncomplicated was when I was a child. Does that mean I've grown old and cynical?
I know it's a product of the baggage that I'm carrying that I've been writing about in other entries of the journal, so I won't belabour the point here, suffice to say that when someone tells you flat out that they don't want to hear about your feelings (which I guess is being direct, in a way, but not one that's positive), and you know that you need them to know and understand those self same issues, then you automatically go about finding another way - which isn't necessarily direct and simple - to make sure they understand. Being indirect and complicated is therefore a leanned behaviour.
All I can say is that Pavlov has a lot to answer for.
I would love to be simple and direct - to have the courage once more to do that. So why can't I? Why do I fear it? And what can I do to make sure that at least try from this point out, to be more direct, to be simpler in my interactions with others.
Though of course my inner Yoda tells me, "Do or do not; there is no try."
I have just three things to teach:
simplicity, patience, compassion.
These are your greatest treasures.
Simple in actions and in thoughts,
you return to the Source of Being.
-Lao-tzu
Like so many other tasks that await us, the reward is hardly what we imagine. It seems that Lao-tsu reveals to us a secret tool of living, kept secret by our unwillingness to accept its truth. This ancient sage tells us quite openly that the act of simplicity-of living directly-is the doorway to the Source of all being.
Imagine if this is true. I implore you, when feeling lost or far away, try it-try being direct-and the Universe without a word will come alive.
The last time I can remember anything being direct, simple and uncomplicated was when I was a child. Does that mean I've grown old and cynical?
I know it's a product of the baggage that I'm carrying that I've been writing about in other entries of the journal, so I won't belabour the point here, suffice to say that when someone tells you flat out that they don't want to hear about your feelings (which I guess is being direct, in a way, but not one that's positive), and you know that you need them to know and understand those self same issues, then you automatically go about finding another way - which isn't necessarily direct and simple - to make sure they understand. Being indirect and complicated is therefore a leanned behaviour.
All I can say is that Pavlov has a lot to answer for.
I would love to be simple and direct - to have the courage once more to do that. So why can't I? Why do I fear it? And what can I do to make sure that at least try from this point out, to be more direct, to be simpler in my interactions with others.
Though of course my inner Yoda tells me, "Do or do not; there is no try."
