Make me uncomfortable…PLEASE!
by The Maui Taoist
Are you comfy?
Is everything okay?
May I help you?
I’ll do it for free!
Why don’t you just rest awhile?
Whats the hurry?
Are you upset?
Why don’t you just go to sleep…?
ARRRRGGGHHHH! I say
Changes will happen, will you rise to the occasion?
Will complacency lull you into a stupor as your life force slips away?
It is all too easy to ignore the energy draining mess that has become your life!
Let me light a fire under you…Adapt or wake up dead.
The house is on fire!
The volcanoes going off!
Here comes a flash flood!
Get the lead out!
Life’s most important lessons are often veiled in mystery. I like a good crisis personally. It helps me find the essential. What would you take if the house was burning? What if you actually looked at your life and asked if you have lived it lately; if not now, when?
There is nothing like an emergency to liven things up. Too bad they are so rare in our posh little world that we have built for ourselves. This could be the downfall of our way of life. The “Nanny State” is a good example. We need to learn to fend for ourselves.
The human race as evolved into it’s own worst enemy! We have become soft and spoiled! I love to rough it some, there is certainty in my ability to handle what life brings my way. Courage, and some street smarts, bring on the apocalypse, let’s get deliberate!
Do you know the Way?
Would you wait until you are drowning to learn how to swim? Act now!
Finding Tao is to be content with “the way things are” if you are not content then…something needs to change! I am even content when I’m not content! What is this double speak? Knowing that being “uncomfortable” is a sign of pending discontent, the Taoist discerns the truth and takes action.
If you do not take action one of two things is most likely… either you do not believe that it is really the truth (ignorance), or you choose to disrespect the truth (stupidity). So you figure it out!
Which is it? Do you need to investigate further? Or should you show some respect and get moving to take right action?
So … when I find myself failing to act on truth, I am forced to ask myself…”Am I ignorant or just being stupid?”
finding contentment in the way things are may mean that the way things are need to change. if one is living with nothing, and has devested themselves are all personal posessions, and they are still uncontent, then perhaps the way to contentment may be to saturate oneself in external stimuli as to awaken the senses and find ones way through that which stimulates or motivates them to act.
Yes things, will change anyway… we adapt and overcome… “things” are nothing… easy to get; hard to get rid of….the real devastation is attachment to desire that draws us away from our essential self… like a cancer “things” infect our life, requiring maintenance, storage and weighing us down, filling up our garages…and homes…and hearts…and minds. Will you leave all this trash for others to clean up when you’re gone? Or free yourself now and live a life that is full of freedom from attachments… Where there is nothing but unlimited potential…
Tao is unlimited potential open your senses to the stimuli of Heaven and Earth, there is nothing greater!
“A free person has no one to blame. He has no boxes, no restrictions, no enemies to take the responsibility for his actions.
But because he’s free, he can choose for himself to create a personal morality that fits his view of reality and will help him live in the way he wants to live.” Harry Browne