Friday 3 April 2020

Neville and the Dao

And so it's either all or nothing. But is it? Is it possible for it to be all AND nothing? Neville AND the Dao.

It all seems to hinge upon the question of expectations and whether we have them or not. Neville teaches us to have nothing but expectation. To project and live in the vision of the future as if it were the present. 100% expectation of what is about to occur next. And in this way it shall occur.

But the Dao is the polar opposite of this, for any hint of expectation about what is to come next is an act of trying, an act of doing, an act of intention. This is not the Dao, because the Dao is the perfect way ahead which we are able to find and walk only when the ego has surrendered all responsibility for steering the destiny of the self. Destiny ought to be in the Dao's hands, not ours.

So there seems to be a paradox here between the two ways of being, and if both are true at different times, then how does one unify them together? 

How is it possible to walk the path we want to see unfold before, without wanting it?

Neville = See and feel what you wish to take place and thus it becomes so.

The Dao = Abandon all intention and surrender yourself completely to each present moment.

Both = The future you seek is already written.

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