It’s hard to empty the mind.  It has been taught so well to compare, judge, figure out, assume, predict, complain, and catastrophize.  Trying to protect me against buffalo herds, falling rocks and traffic.

But the Tao says to empty the mind and watch the wonder of the world, detach from the turmoil and allow the deep peace fill my body.  What a practice.  I wonder if anyone ever really gets it right.

Lucky for us, “getting it right” is not what it is about.  It is about the practice, the joy of the game.  Today’s game is to fall back into serenity at every other moment, resting in the Arms of a Lover.