Tao of the Day: The Freedom of not knowing, not having

[burgunder]

Moving into our experience - whether it's the opening experience of love and compassion or the closing-down experience of resentment and separation - brings us an enormous sense of freedom: the freedom of nothing solid

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[burgunder]

I'm increasingly partial, in recent years, to avoiding.

The stress mounts, and eventually I say Enough, and avoid the horse that always kicks.

It's been working pretty well for me.

So I'm still trying to grok the wisdom in this. I see some of its wisdom.

I do not yet grok how walking down the same alleyway for the horse to kick me again is going to increase my freedom, if there's another alleyway I can use to avoid that damn horse.

Lao Tzu would say: avoid the horse.

Buddha seems to be saying: accept and embrace the horse as it is. Really? When it kicks?

[burgunder]

Ah! I had a feeling one of my friends would have a better understanding of this than me. That begins to make a lot more sense.

[burgunder]

English is crazy.