Puzzles

Life is a tapestry of interconnections... weaved by change.

A person changes each day and each day we fit in anew to be ourselves.

This is the puzzle of living. Taoism gives a simple answer in how to piece it all together:

Don't worry about the larger puzzle, just be your own shape.

This is one definition of acceptance. When embracing our shape in the puzzle called life. The answer doesn't matter, since it's already assembled completely in the now. It's a human mis-perception to believe we actually assemble the bigger picture. Instead the point becomes experiencing the shapes you move through while living.

This is easier to do when alone, but harder when mixed in with so many others. When society places pressures upon you to change so other people can be a certain shape. In this situation it's very easy to forget to be yourself when spending so much time fitting into someone else's conceptions:

* In order to get to the next place,
* In order to make it at work,
* In order to keep others happy,
* In order to get ahead
* or make it to the next day just to survive...

In this rush of fitting in, we overlook and forget we are already there: as ourself, as the puzzle piece already fitting into the larger picture.

A Taoist embraces themselves fully, so that the firmness of self acceptance is enough to make society accept them as is.

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Within this post is the baseline of understanding the core of every mystical belief. Even when wrapped around layers and layers of other practices and ideas. If you know the core truth of acceptance, then you can understand and be part of any faith, any truth, that others put forth as the secret to life. (just don't tell them that, as people like to make things more complicated. After all others are very busy being their own ego inflated shape.)

For instance to take a quote from the Buddha:

“You cannot travel the path until you have become the path itself”.

We are all on the same path. The difference is how we decide to experience life.

Peace