If we have learned anything over the last few months of study and writing about the I Ching, it has been that change is inevitable in every situation and that we should condition change to both us and nature. When we see ourselves as living with our highest purpose we naturally flow to what I like to call moving to foreseeable outcomes. Our roadmap can only endure with compassion and virtue as our benchmark. Why the history of what became known as Taoism can be seen as something beyond religion to a philosophy respecting all things as a way of life. Following the seasons and how nature can heal itself reminds us of our own essential nature too.
Indigenous peoples the world over have always looked to nature as our teacher. That when we take care of the rivers and streams, animals, flora and fauna, then they take care of us. Learning about the movement of the sun, moon, and stars taught us that we are a part of something much bigger than simply serving our own personal needs. That when we look beyond the natural order of things we learned about underlying contradictions and the meaning of cause and effect. That everything found in nature is dependent on balance and divine order or dies. That all things live through and by spirit.
Why looking for the middle of things is so important and that when things go too far in one direction like a pendulum, then they must swing back. To possibly move beyond what anyone has expected or experienced by being the first to change along the way. Learning that having certain values not in keeping with the virtue found in all things means disaster is soon to follow. That what’s good for me must also be good for my neighbor, and that nature depends on complimentary opposites for success. Like finding ourselves in a place or situation that runs counter to our best interest that we can only learn from when ego reigns supreme as alternatives spring forth to find us.
This is an early entry with many to follow with a long story to tell. With an underlying flow of events that are to convey and tell a never-ending, unknowable story with our memories leading the way. Transformation into our greatest self beyond ego with what we experience, hear, read, see, think, and do, the only clues or vibrations to what follows. To what our hearts and mind absorb for the long run, to a place we might call as transcendental. It is an eternal truth that sometimes something must appear to become broken in its current form before changing into something else for eternal growth and change to follow. Something that remains indefinable as we each must find it for ourselves.
My Travels with Lieh Tzu / Interpolations along the Way
Introduction – Your Writing becomes You
3. Embracing Change
The doves have arrived with Lieh Tzu to bring peace and tranquility to your environment in a time of upheaval and turmoil.
Things have been allowed to get out of skelter. Everything gone amiss. Trivial things adding together contributing to outcomes gone astray. Your next footstep along the way must be grounded in knowledge of from where you came and an overall sense of your next step to come.
Steps to the summit on Songshan Mountain south of Luoyang
There is a reason and purpose for your untimely travails. The journey ahead is not meant to be easy. The Way, or Tao, is not meant to be found without coming to understand the true meaning of compassion, sincerity, and trust that will set you free. What you were doing was not what you were meant to be doing. Finding yourself in the overall scheme of the universe is the mission that must occupy your every word, action, and deed.
Remember what has been said and written before. Anything of value by the world’s standards cannot assist you in finding your overall purpose in the journey about to come.
Change must occur. False realities must be abandoned. You must not be tied to pre-existing or conceived directions that were the results of ill winds and doors that are transitory openings to success and good fortune.
They can only bring temporary success in an area fraught by ill gain and earthly endeavors. Never meant to approach the way to be followed or the path that must be taken. Keep to the open road. Complete what you have started and prepare to move on. New doors are waiting to be opened that were simply waiting for old doors to shut.
Remember your strengths and use them to your advantage. Embracing change and the transformation the dragons have been waiting for. As the doves arrive with Lieh Tzu telling you to be prepared and ready to go. 8/16/94
Number three of one hundred fifty-eight entries.
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