The Memoirs of a Wind Master

The jet stream encompasses the globe.

Lets rotate the jet stream so we have a top down view of it from the North Pole.

Which is the symbol in Chinese for heaven. Ironic that this circle that symbolizes Heaven emulates the wind? It also emulates the globe.

“Perception is the editor of reality.”

 The challenge for the day: Think in different perspectives. It opens up new pathways for compassion, and modesty that were never thought possible.

The essence of Tao

The essence of Tao is emptiness.

He who, while living an apparently normal life, experiences the whole world as an emptiness, is a Jivanmukta. None is afraid of him; he is afraid of none.

 Emptiness may seem like a void, an unimaginable circumstance unto which individuals may seemly perceive that they have fallen into a trap, a never ending limbo of sorts.

or

One can view it as a chance to bide and patiently be alive until the next wave of action is needed.

You name an object a bowl not because of the clay that you decided to make it out of, but the empty space in the middle. 

From great emptiness comes great potential energy. If one were to watch a wave it has to ebb before it is able to flow,or it would just stay still in the current.

So if you feel like you are in limbo-just take a break relax. Your wave is coming back soon.

Taoism

Taoism is something that can be defined in the undefinable characteristics that it embodies. The first chapter of the Tao Te Ching says

The Ineffable, about which is spoken, is not the eternal Ineffable
A name for the Unnameable, is but a name
The Unnameable is what makes everything what it is
By naming things you divide the Indivisible
Only one who gives up all his desires can experience the Indivisible
One who still cherishes desires, will experience only dissension
Both will see the same reality, but experience it differently
One who goes from the false reality into the other,
Will pass through the narrow gate and receive the secret of true life
by: Anon.

 I could write A bunch of mambo jumbo about random sages and the likes, yet it would feel incomplete. A mere shell of the capabilities of what this blog can do. So I created a blog in the life of a Taoist. This blog will tell some of the story and other meditation techniques, as well as how to be a Taoist on a daily basis. Little by little.

A Journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step.

The first challenge is to watch a pet.

That is it.

Hints:

1. Don't try to predict the animal!

Just watch it go through it's day and relax when it wants to and be excited when it wants to. When its inert nature that is actively displaying itself you are watching The Interconnected Way Making of the Symbian being(s). Tao.

Namaste