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Posted: Wed, Apr 23, 2025 06:56:48 AM

who i am and being that on purpose! it is ironic that what i chose as my seed to focus on, as i dipped into the void, was the seed i chose to write about a year ago. i know that i have started to seek a small phrase from my source material, rather than the headline, to be the stone i drop into my pool of consciousness and as a result, i am getting a few different results. i have to say, that trying something different, is changing how i see this little exercise. pulling out a phrase of two or three words, is not really new to me, back when i was struggling to meditate, i tried doing the same thing and continued to have a less than stellar experience with meditation. of course i blamed the material and not myself, but that is certainly water over the dam and making a change or three is something i do to make my experience more fruitful, as i have FAITH that i have just begun to feel the true effects of meditation.
leaving the topic of what was and coming back to what is, i have written more than once about the cataclysmic change wrought by my last FIFTH STEP. as i embark on my journey through STEP THREE, i am starting to get the sense that the nature of my insanity and what i do and do not have power over, is starting to clarify. i know what my assignment is and i know i have yet to open my reading material to start it. when one has been clean for as long as i have, there is less immediacy to getting through the steps. where once upon a time my house was burning down, now it is all about rebuilding on the ruins of that life. coming to terms with who i am, seems to be the thrust of this round of steps, now that i have been living in the sunlight of the spirit, no longer stymied by the lie that i am not good enough to be seen as who i am. the damage done by the decades of living that lie, is quite apparent, as i am still getting my head wrapped around the notion that i do not know who i am and what i value as part of my identity.
more will be revealed. just for today, however, i feel okay with showing who i think i am and living a life where there is still a mystery or three. as i step out into this spring morning to train for the 10K race at the end of May, i know that the rewards i am seeking are neither physical nor financial, they are spiritual and based in who i have the desire to become, inn the here and now.

∞ DT ∞


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Tao Te Ching

☯ The Tao that can be spoken is not the eternal Tao ☯

The Tao Teh King, or The Tao and Its Characteristics
by Lao-Tse
Translated by James Legge

Book 2

2) There is always One who presides over the infliction death. He
who would inflict death in the room of him who so presides over it
may be described as hewing wood instead of a great carpenter. Seldom
is it that he who undertakes the hewing, instead of the great carpenter,
does not cut his own hands!