The Tao of Enjoying Yourself, The Ride, and Those Around You
Tao, loosely translates to the path or way, but its true meaning is beyond expression with words. It is not the simple routine we are sold and told is “it” from every direction and lie to ourselves about desiring. It is a means of doing the right thing in the right way for the right reason. If this can be accomplished we are content and happy, yet with all our impressive technological development and our impressive industrialization and brilliant urbanization we are further away from this contentment and happiness we desire to the point of lusting for it. We even make a practice out of faking happiness and contentment supported by a multimillion dollar industry created to charge you to learn to fake it. Do we really need help in habituating certain phrases and expressions? I think not. As with most things it just take lots of practice. So let me see here. We can either put in time to actually work on being real, which will lead to happiness or spend the same amount of time become great at faking happiness though actually being in deep conflict inside. We all have the choice to make. The work it takes to know, enjoy, and allow yourself to grow is without substitutes, shortcuts, or blue prints. Your parents, boss, guru, or latest, overpriced system of abundance can’t provide you the way. Without an open portal of communication with our ego-detached, truth knowing, quiet mind our ability to enjoy happiness and contentment is severely limited. How much you enjoy the various interactions around you, from your immediate family to the guy on the street corner wanting some change, is very much affected by the attitude and energy you bring into it, as well as the actions of each exchange. With that said, the first order of a content, productive, contributing existence is maintaining an integrated lifestyle that nourishes and enhances the body, mind and spirit. The best formula for each of us is a unique, self produced combination of the aforementioned: Nourish and enhance the body, mind and spirit through an integrated lifestyle. I hope this blog can present some food for thought that resonates with you and will assist your connection to the discovery of your means to enjoy yourself, the ride and all those around you.
In the 5 years since I have started this blog I have significantly increased the depths of my meditations and realized the subsequent enhanced clarity and growing ability to love unconditionally. I’ve been deeply IN love, hurt and disillusioned from that love’s frailty, complexity and subsequent unmanageability. Although such experiences are very painful, they open up your perception and humanity exponentially. I became aware of not only my elevation of enlightenment but also the significant amount of residual ego still intertwined in mindset. I was both a profound seeker and a closet example of what I was so offended by in humanity, by what I was so fundamentally opposed to. Quite a paradox! Ha ha ha! There was much in my purposeful path that was in line with my principles. There was also still much that was not. This in itself is to be expected and part of the process. But I was caught taking the easy route and reveling in my progress and conveniently ignoring my still prevalent shortcomings. Balance is key
Compartmentalized comments, support and guidelines in regard to body-mind-spirit health enhancement and self-help seems trivial and of very limited value to me at this point. I realize it is not about the actions but the mindset that dictates them. This mindset has no standard formula but a unique quotient and language that equates to our individual self-realization and subsequent happiness and contentment, a contentment in the reality of our limits of control and an intangible cosmic order that exists. With that said, my future aim will be in writing with an objective of helping others find their own formula as opposed to the standard fragments, misinterpretations and egotistical delusions being presented as “The Formula.” I will share Zen at its simplest by some true people of enlightenment as well as offering my crude contemporary translations of the words of enlightened prophets , as well as my personal insights and experiences of life.
