Last night, I spent time on the telephone catching up about friends and colleagues I haven’t seen in a while and there was something wistful in the air – air so thick because it represented another piece of this large life I have been living – life is short, but it’s wide – yet there are dimensions of your life, which are not on the daily path, where people and places live in darkness until someone shines a light in their direction. And yes, those people age, and yes, those people harbor regret and sorrow, and yes, some things\/people\/places have changed irrevocably – yet, they are all part of your life, happy and sad, short or wide, old layered on new, and how you see and how you feel is what is in you.<\/p>\n
Today, the meditation from the Tao te Ching is about how opposing forces may coexist:<\/p>\n
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When people see some things as beautiful
\nother things become ugly.
\nWhen people see some things as good,
\nother things become bad.<\/p>\nBeing and non-being create each other.
\nDifficult and easy support each other.
\nLong and short define each other.
\nHigh and low depend on each other.
\nBefore and after follow each other.<\/p>\nTherefore the Master
\nacts without doing anything
\nand teaches without saying anything.
\nThings arise and she lets them come;
\nThings disappear and she lets them go.
\nShe has but doesn’t possess,
\nacts but doesn’t expect.
\nWhen her work is done, she forgets it.
\nThat is why it lasts forever.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last night, I spent time on the telephone catching up about friends and colleagues I haven’t seen in a while and there was something wistful in the air – air so thick because it represented another piece of this large life I have been living – life is short, but it’s wide – yet there are dimensions of your life, which are not on the daily path, where people and places live in darkness until… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1kHSD-16P","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4267"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4272,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4267\/revisions\/4272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}