Hermits, Light and Answers
"The great hermit lives in town"
I am feeling the urge to become a hermit again. This just means I am tired today. But this is the thought that started my day.
In retrospect, I have spent more time in life as a hermit than living as an active member of society. Hermit caves are easily found in abundance: hidden as office cubicles, slums or any place where people ignore each other in the rush of the day.
Taoism is a very personal path. A Taoist keeps their true path in the heart. To someone walking by, there would be no outwards signs of a Taoist master meditating or transforming within the light.
I spent yesterday answering dozens of questions. I see hundreds of different questions... and in fact it's actually always the same question with the same answer. Seekers are hungry for answers, details , books, masters, hope, faith, to embrace angels in dancing... Approaching the problem as if it's about consumption to fulfill oneself to completion...
People generally approach enlightenment, almost as if it were a race, grabbing and stuffing as much light into their core... so they don't have to be afraid of the dark anymore. Unwilling to accept they are the light itself.
The answers are actually quite simple... Its just being human, needing challenges, people make the path for embracing the answers to be the challenge.
It does all come down to being a personal choice. I know this: as I embrace my own personal path quietly within being myself internally as the light and also being externally myself as "Casey" helping others in teaching acceptance.
To a Taoist teacher, patience and acceptance are core, It's important to recognize the inner nature of each person.
Being one with the light isn't hard, when it's in our very nature to be the light: what is hard is being something that you are not. This is where most people spend their time and why it can take 60 years to come to terms with the Tao.
Again it's all a personal choice in the end, within the path we each choose: to play out as our life.
Peace
PS: more tomorrow.
In retrospect, I have spent more time in life as a hermit than living as an active member of society. Hermit caves are easily found in abundance: hidden as office cubicles, slums or any place where people ignore each other in the rush of the day.
Taoism is a very personal path. A Taoist keeps their true path in the heart. To someone walking by, there would be no outwards signs of a Taoist master meditating or transforming within the light.
I spent yesterday answering dozens of questions. I see hundreds of different questions... and in fact it's actually always the same question with the same answer. Seekers are hungry for answers, details , books, masters, hope, faith, to embrace angels in dancing... Approaching the problem as if it's about consumption to fulfill oneself to completion...
People generally approach enlightenment, almost as if it were a race, grabbing and stuffing as much light into their core... so they don't have to be afraid of the dark anymore. Unwilling to accept they are the light itself.
The answers are actually quite simple... Its just being human, needing challenges, people make the path for embracing the answers to be the challenge.
It does all come down to being a personal choice. I know this: as I embrace my own personal path quietly within being myself internally as the light and also being externally myself as "Casey" helping others in teaching acceptance.
To a Taoist teacher, patience and acceptance are core, It's important to recognize the inner nature of each person.
Taoism isn't a one size fits all solution, rather all people fit and are within the Tao as part of the answer, the path , the way.A Taoist Teacher helps a student unfold within their own personal Tao. It's not about teaching the student your path, it's about giving some outside perspective to help the student along their own path in a more graceful manner.
This is the mistake most people make, trying to make some master's path their own.The path for some will be years in the traveling, for a rare few a moment... Yet it's all in the same time frame, of the lifetime, it occurs within.
Being one with the light isn't hard, when it's in our very nature to be the light: what is hard is being something that you are not. This is where most people spend their time and why it can take 60 years to come to terms with the Tao.
Again it's all a personal choice in the end, within the path we each choose: to play out as our life.
Peace
PS: more tomorrow.
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