this everything dance

I like to live in the sound of water

in the feel of mountain air. A sharp

reminder hits me:  this world is still alive,

it stretches out there shivering toward its own

creation, and I'm part of it. Even my breathing

enters into this elaborate give-and-take,

this bowing to sun and moon, day or night,

winter, summer, storm, still - this tranquil 

chaos that seems to be going somewhere.

This wilderness with a great peacefulness in it. 

This motionless turmoil, this everything dance. 

William Stafford

Even in Quiet Places

Photo: Peter Bowers

an ordinary life

Unchain yourself from achievement
and enjoy an ordinary life.
Flow like the Tao, unhindered,
unnoticed, unnamed,
with no goals, no expectations,
Be like a child, like a fool.
Know that there is nothing to know.
This is the direct way to freedom.





Commentary

... The day unfolds its little surprises, you flow from concentration to relaxedness to concentration, from morning to evening, the only possible break in the current of delight is an untrue thought.  Everyday mind is the Tao.




Stephen Mitchell
The Second Book of the Tao, 51
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