Lao Tzu’s

Being a avid and disciplined practitioner of formal spiritual practice, I am looking for ways to bring the keen attention and sincerity of my sitting practice into every moment of my life.

In this way I am captured by Lao Tzu’s teachings of oneness.

In verse 3 of The Unknown Teachings of Lao Tzu: Hua Hu Ching, by Brian Walker., Lao Tzu says:

“Those who wish to embody the Tao should embrace all things.

To embrace all things, first one holds no anger or resistance toward
any idea or thing, living or dead, form or formless.

Acceptance is the very essence of the Tao.”

There is more to the verse, but I pause here to take it in.

It’s a tall order.

But I begin. I start by noticing and noting when I feel angry or when I have resistance…… to anything. I simply notice and name it when I notice. “Oh, resistance.” “Anger.”

Having just started last evening (who would have thought there were so many subtle places of resistance and anger), already there is an aching in my heart where the practice is touching me, perhaps unknoting some long hidden and conditioned place of separation.

This is the gift of awareness held within sincerity.

Om God.