A story from the Dao

The three truth of a human being:

• what man thinks about oneself
• what others think about him/-herself
• what life likes to unfold in ourself

What is true? What liberate us?

The Dao guides us to the third answer

What we think about ourself has to do with different points:

• our upbringing and our current experience
• beliefs, which we accept as truth
• desires, that never seem to fulfill themselves
• the answers, which life gives us as a response to our actions

Here is the story of the Dao:

The caterpillar transforms into a butterfly by itself. The caterpillar has nothing to do or to know. Life itself guides it to the cocoon and then to a butterfly. It is a natural process. Time unfolds the path itself. The Dao looks the same to mankind. The less man interferes, the easier our true Inner Self can be recognized. Mostly we have a special image about ourself and we try to control this image. This guides us far away from the real truth (even our spiritual paths can be a distraction). (Quote from Grasshopper)

Life itself might answer with strokes of fate, that rubs on our image about ourself. The more we want to change the natural process, the stronger that resistance may appear. The natural process when left unmanaged may appear very uncomfortable or painful.

One action towards our true self might look like this:

"Let us live simply in the freshness of the present moment, in the clarity of pure awakened mind" M.Ricard

Each moment we can decide to be different. We don't have to take the old burden from the past into this fresh moment, which is the present. We can stay open for this what life has to offer. This brings a wonderful freedom to meet each human being with a freshness.