The Tide of Tao

I once wrote that the Tao is a Tide of Tides...  

In Taoism we practice living to potential. As the tide of Tao shifts: Potential increases. That increase of potential can be felt in your life. Everything starts shifting, in all sorts of ways from good and bad. Being potential, it will take a form to better compliment your life. This isn't a logical process, For example things will break when least expected, when pushing oneself too hard, since by pushing too you hard you also create the need for release. 


The difference with the Shifting of Tides, potential is shifting in ways that cannot be predicted by past lessons learned... the subtle shifts of potential create vast differences in how life can unfold. This is the time when a butterfly effect turns the breeze into a hurricane, since potentials pile up in such a manner to amplify seemingly small effects.

We will notice in personal lives first, more relationship turmoils, things breaking unexpectedly, connections out of the blue, whimsical coincidences that seem improbable, occur more frequently. It's a time to listen to one's life to better flow with your own life.


As the song goes Times are a changing




So how is this any different than anytime before?

Quite simply the answer is this:

We are living it :)

As the subtle tide shifts, this is a good time to practice awareness, to flow with life, rather than get caught in a riptide against your nature.

This isn't a time to watch the larger world or news: instead this is a time to pay closer attention to home. Our home is always a reflection to the larger universe... Our inner life always contains all the connections needed to reach out. So now, here, pay close attention to look inward to home. Looking outwards means to miss what is transitioning now... inside... heart.

Do you feel this?

Julie and I are now taking time to simplify, not to push, but be strong in life... Slowing down into heart... Change is always most subtle at the start of the process, but the most profound truths are to be had now, in the pause, as the tide of tides now starts to shift again.

Namaste