Imagine Water

I’ve been giving a lot of thought to water lately. It makes up so much of our daily lives our bodies are largely water. The human body is about 60% water in adult males and 55% in adult females. Fact is we simply can not live without it.

Ever sit along side a stream, a river or on the beach and just absorb the sights, sounds and smells around you? Watching the tides roll in and out, the streams forming over the rocks as they head their way back to the sea?

Ever consider how the stream, the river and the ocean are one system? The streams flow over the rocks and meet up to form the rivers which flow into the seas. The seas produce moisture that condenses in the atmosphere that moves inland and gets trapped by the mountains. The clouds drop rain which forms streams and the cycle repeats endlessly much like the tide changes and rhythmic surf coming and going on your favorite beach.

Point being it’s all water, it’s all connected and all continues in a rhythmic cycle.

Water has a way of seeking its own level. Water is capable of penetrating into the smallest of cracks and holes. Water seeks the lowest points on the planet not the highest points. Waterfalls are called waterfalls because they fall. Water naturally goes toward the lowest point without question. Water overcomes all obstacles by wearing them away, flowing around them or moving them.

Since we are so dependent upon water for our very survival maybe we should act more like it and even possibly stop polluting it.

Inner Light

This verse from an ancient Chinese fellow was interesting to me:

A knower of the truth
travels without leaving a trace,
speaks without causing harm,
gives without keeping an account.
The door he or she shuts, though having no lock,
cannot be opened.
The knot he or she ties, though using no cord,
cannot be undone.

Be wise and help all beings impartially,
abandoning none.
Waste no opportunities.
This is called following the light.

What is a good man but a bad man’s teacher?
What is a bad man but a good man’s job?
If the teacher is not respected
and the student not cared for,
confusion will arise, however clever one is.
This is the great secret.

Pot Luck Dinner

Let's have a Pot Luck! Or whatever you call gathering together in your country to share a meal, where everyone brings a dish of some delicious simple food they've made with their own hand.

Pot Lucks are a time of sharing, giving and receiving. Where we are on equaled ground giving and taking. Sharing company, thoughts, love and community.

What is simpler than a Pot Luck?

Spread the word, The world needs to have more Pot Lucks!

Thinking Outside Our Finite Box

I enjoyed reading this ancient oriental poem;

The Tao is empty
but inexhaustible,
bottomless,
the ancestor of it all.

Within it, the sharp edges become smooth;
the twisted knots loosen;
the sun is softened by a cloud;
the dust settles into place.

It is hidden but always present.
I do not know who gave birth to it.
It seems to be the common ancestor of all, the father of things.

I remember early thoughts as a child lying under the star filled sky at night, "How far does the universe go? If we came to a wall what would be beyond that wall and the next and the next?"

As I became a bit older and read more deeply into the scriptures I found myself trying to make the connection of a God that lives off somewhere in heaven yet lives inside me. Is so far away and untouchable, yet so intimately close. How One could be without mother or father and never be born, yet always to have existed.

A Native American saying made sense to me at that point in my life, "You become a man (grown person) when you realize how much there is that you do not know."

The ancient poem above was written 5,000 years BC. I guess it doesn’t matter so much when eternity is forever.