Let go!<\/p>\n
When I woke up this morning\u00a0 my first thoughts were about being a river. I saw very clearly the things that keep me clinging to the shore.\u00a0 Zen uses the river as an example of how to live a life in flow.\u00a0 Whoever I am still carrying and wherever I perseverate is me clinging to the shore. We don’t have to stay on the shore. Comfort is also the shore.\u00a0 That’s why Zen says stay moving. I see self inflicted torture as standing on the shore watching life go by, they are the thoughts that keep us from jumping in and letting nature deliver. When I got up and\u00a0 I looked at new emails\u00a0 there was one from my sister:<\/p>\n
“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some
\nblunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can.
\nTomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a
\nspirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”
\n\u2014Ralph Waldo Emerson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Let go! When I woke up this morning\u00a0 my first thoughts were about being a river. I saw very clearly the things that keep me clinging to the shore.\u00a0 Zen uses the river as an example of how to live a life in flow.\u00a0 Whoever I am still carrying and wherever I perseverate is me … <\/p>\n