The Flow of Life

When we look at nature, doing nothing makes way more sense than we think.
-Einzelganger

I have listened to three videos that I seemed to have coincidentally come upon  today.  Was it a random grouping?  I think not.  Each video spoke to something I had on my mind...this idea of doing or thinking our way into a better life..."striving" as it was referred to in Wayne Dyer's video.

The flow of Life Vs Striving

Now I know there is nothing wrong with action and nothing wrong with thinking as long as we are not so attached to these two things that we identify ourselves by them and thus fail to let go to the Flow of Life.

Each of the videos addressed, in some form, the human tendency and  need to control, manipulate, work hard, focus on out come, push, be hard or rigid etc in an attempt to meet our goals and live an idea of life we think we should be living. We identify as form and use form to diminish the dissatisfaction and sense of lack of fulfillment such identification causes. We are, as a result, often swimming against the current rather than just going with it.

We need to let go of our resistance and let go to the flow:

That which offers no resistance
overcomes the hardest substances
That which offers no resistance
can enter where there is no space.
translation of Tao Te Ching/ Einzelganger

When we do this amazing things can happen.

What is the Flow?

The flow is the way, the Tao...that formless force that exists within us all that is eternal and nameless. A balance between action and nonaction; between acute anxiety and boredom. This force is beyond thinking, worry ...is gentle and fluid like water and is as powerful as water against the rigid and the hard.  When we flow with this force rather than against it, as we tend to do  when we attempt to control life or nature to meet the needs of form...we flow in the path of least resistance.  Athletes refer to it as "being in the zone". Things become easier. When we flow against this force...things are harder than they have to be and we tend to get farther and farther away from what we want.

We automatically slip into this flow when we realize who we are beneath the form and live from there and act from there.

This God realization or living from our spiritual, formless nature means we can overcome the hardness and rigidity of form and can go anywhere even into those tight closed off places of fear and despair that we develop in our minds and hearts.

Hmmm...something to think about.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. Henry David Thoreau from Walden https://socratic.org/questions/where-is-this-quote-from-go-confidently-in-the-direction-of-your-dreams-live-the

Eckhart Tolle (July 7,2020)  the Beginning of Awakening and Essential Identity. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_o2iOavxYI

Einzelganger (August 2019) Taoism-the  Philosophy of Flow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtGtqmC5wU4

Just Motivation-June 2020 Dr Wayne Dyer's Life Advise will Leave You Speechless. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIl2gCrSGnA