“Free from desire, you can embrace the mystery.”  The Tao again, as usual, simple and silly.

But this means that sometimes goals can focus my brain in to a hypnotic trance and i don’t see the surroundings, just my feet on the path with determination in each step.  I must stand in the path, stop the flow and BE part of the flow around me.

Trees move, but don’t tread the path like I do. Being a walking tree, I do miss the slow passage of time with each inch of spectacular growth and seasonal spurt of sap.  Standing still on the path helps to be at one with the Tao around me.  I can even cherish every twist and turn of seeming banal slow flow.

Be the Tao they say.  Today I chant this to see this–be what I am where I am just as I am.  Watch the brilliance, mystery and magic of human spirit twisting candycane in each breath.  I am red and white, sweet and curved, hanging on the Tree of Life.