Appreciate and Trust: My Only Teaching

Live cannot be known, but it must be lived. And since everything we think we know about life is wrong (everything), then something other than thought must come to the fore. All of your thoughts, without exception, having nothing whatsoever to do with the meaning or purpose of life.

What we think about life, what we think “we” know, is just a thought object that arises in consciousness; nothing more and nothing less.

So if what we think about life is just an object happening in life and has nothing whatsoever to do with “knowing” life, then how do we take the first step? What is the first step? Do we walk in ignorance? No - we walk in beauty.

The first step is no different from the last step. Really there are only two steps and, in the end, they are really just one.

1. Appreciate everything without exception that arises in life - including the seeming manifestation of your own ego and particularly the resistance that comes from your body in whatever life circumstance in which resistance arises. Appreciate it all.

2. The second step (and this is probably the more difficult of the two) is to trust everything without exception, that all is perfectly right for you at the moment in which anything happens.

Why trust life? Because we cannot know anything about life. Only life knows life. Authentic wisdom trusts life in all its manifestations. Your mind, if it’s anything like mine, will “think” that it knows more than life itself. This is just ego or whatever you’d like to call it. The words don’t matter. Just know that your mind cannot read the mind of Tao, so we are called to trust and appreciate everything exactly as it is, even brutal injustice, and know that it’s perfectly right for us.

We Trust and We Appreciate.

And what about injustice? If you are alive and you appreciate and trust everything that happens as it happe, then what happens next will be exactly the right thing. Nothing more needs to be added. See everything as perfectly right and therefore utterly trustworthy and because it is a gift intended only for you, appreciate it with all of your heart.

Appreciate and trust; that has become my only teaching.

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