Straight Line Path
Of course Nothing in this world goes exactly straight to where we would have it go. Just driving the car to the market can be a challenge. Detours, starts and stops, minor diversions abound. And then there is the man who went out for cigarettes and came back home 6 years later. One never knows what will get in the way.
The future is branced like a tree. So many possible outcomes and possibilities. It occured to me once that Hell could very well be taking one of these brances to its extreme and finding oneself dangling at the edge of the precipice with nowhere else to go. --- No future and no real past.
The chinese have a saying "Wei Wu" Which roughly translated means do without doing. To me it is that still moment where the devining rod of consciousness meets the human moment. A time to follow a path for just the reason that it is available. Things fall into place often not through our efforts and energy, but through the mechanations of the universe. Happily the universe lets us have our way quite often. We breath, eat, and survive all at the whim of powers outside our control. It is by living moment by moment that we come in contact with the grand union of souls. Tomorrow will take care of itself, yesterday has no recourse.
If we pour water into the sand where does it go?
Salt from the shaker goes where it will.
Leaves thrown in the wind land far from the hand.
Dandelion fluff blows where the breeze takes it.
Where will your foot fall tomorrow?
