Fifty-Two

"Do you think you can clear your mind by sitting
constantly in silent meditation?
This makes your mind narrow, not clear.
Integral awareness is fluid and adaptable, present
in all places and at all times.
That is true meditation.

Who can attain clarity and simplicity by avoiding the
world?
The Tao is clear and simple, and it doesn't avoid the
world.

What not simply honor your parents,
love your children,
help your brothers and sisters,
be faithful to your friends,
care for your mate with devotion,
complete your work cooperatively and joyfully,
assume responsibility for problems,
practice virtue without first demanding it of others,
understand the highest truths yet retain an ordinary
manner?

That would be true clarity, true simplicity, true
mastery."

I think I get some part of most of these things right each day. With this blog I am working toward putting them all together in a practice that will carry me through the rest of my life. The further I go, the more truth I discover, so that my notion of right is expanding or strengthening while my sense of wrong pales or diminishes (in the power of wrong or evil) by comparison. A popular saying for some is "what you focus on grows." As I continue to focus on what is correct, I grow more.