A Tribute to the Tao
Water
The Tao is an expression of all things, all manner, all material.
Literature on the Water Trigram of the Tao.
In the Tao, emotion has a relationship with Water.
Let’s start with a definition of what emotion is.
Emotion is a resonant transformation of a powerful projection of feeling.
A feeling should be able to move like a ripple on water, but there is an aspect of self that holds the judgment of a feeling as good or bad, and this is the place where it all gets thrown out of whack. A feeling is meant to be felt. It’s a signalling device, and the second a person veers away from a feeling communication, the system begins to go into a disordered state.
The feeling has to pursue you and amplify until the message is received.
When the feeling you are having is responded to in the instant you receive it, all systems are go, and the feeling subsides simply because it was heard and is now available to be in expression of the next necessary bit of information.
The Relationship of Air to Water
by Janice Brown (October 6, 2024)
In this dynamic there is always going to be a phenomenon resonance.
A resonant potential that can not exist any other way.
Now walk with me a while on this one.
Once in a while I’ll see a cloud formation that really knocks my socks off. Why is that? Why is the cloud the form that it is? The shape that it is? It’s a mystery to me that we have not discussed this more fluently in our lives.
I can see quite vividly the variety and expression of clouds that have been in formation in my observable world this week and it has been captivating. I’ll call this an exploration of the mind but really it is an effervescence that exists in a certain human potential or form and this form is known basically as Who I Am.
Now who I am is different for me and you, and though we walk around breathing the same air, the same air is doing different things to you and me. What was once a simple apple peel is now an orchestration of colour and movement transforming through a system, I’ll call the body but you may think of as gross anatomy. But what fascinates me is vascular anatomy, the place that runs through the entire body and finds a way to touch every cell and membrane.
How does it do that? Through an osmosis of sorts a replication and animation of singular moving parts and these parts break down and tranquilize certain aspects of our system for no other reason than they are there. But what if they are not? We struggle to transform the simplest thing we have and this I’ll call life force, the animating structure within all beings that exists and co-exists in Heart and Mind.
This is an opportunity for understanding something about yourself that has never been seen before. You are like a blossoming flower, all the components and parts and pieces needed to bloom into your final form are present with the first breath of life but the first breath of life is not prepared by any means to become a beautiful blossom, it needs to go through the motions and each and every experience brings it into fulfilment.
This is the made up construct of something we call growth, and that’s a silly and weird thing to say…‘made up construct’. Well, it is. We can watch what is happening under a microscope, or a looking glass, or an animated short, and still we’ll never see what it is that is really occurring. We’ll see constructive steps along the way, elements of importance and yes, radical variance of character within each and every one of these experiences, and that’s just what we can see.
What about what we can’t see? We can’t see the nudge of the little flower from the bloom next door saying it’s not so hard if you just let it go this way. We can’t see the fury of enlightenment that came with that last snow storm. The snow flake that landed on the ground, in precisely the right place to bring the resonance of hope that would bloom on a far summer’s day. We can’t see the anatomy of purpose, or the reason for being, and we sure can’t know what that little flower had in its heart when it decided to grow. But what we can see and can know is that that little flower got all the resources that it needed at exactly the right time to grow up into its full fledged blooming self today.
Know how we know that? Because it Is.
It isn’t going to proudly march itself off to the market and say, ‘Gee I wish I had grown up another way.’ It’s going to say, ‘I am here. Can’t you see how beautiful I feel today?’ And that will be the lesson that we need to take away from Water and Air.
Water and AIR are symbiotic counterparts that create in their own union, an organic tapestry of chemical components that build a pathway for a life force to move through an expression of being. And that’s what we learned on our little journey today. Some might call that physiology but me, I’ll call it the reason that We Be.
AIR is an acronym for All In Resonance.
Robust Emotional Experiences are Part of a Life of Expression.
It’s not that there is something wrong with emotions; it is that they
are used with disorderly conduct.
All life prevails because there is an emotional experience. All life is in conflict because there is an emotional experience. And all life is in perfect rhythm and expression because there is an emotional experience.
The expression of emotions is key to living, and it is this key that we are going to spend a great deal of time with. The place where we would like to put our focus to begin with is in the Heart Mind.
The Heart Mind is an aspect of self that is always in expression. It is not that you don’t have one; it is that you are unfamiliar with this term. So for the time being we are simply going to use the word superconscious because it is more colloquial with everyday expression.
As we move into deeper study of the self and mind, we are going to exchange this term with another because it will then begin to make more sense. For now, let’s simply say it is an aspect of self that is in need of a governing principle. It is this:
Wherever the Heart goes, the Mind follows;
wherever the Mind goes, the Heart follows.
And so in terms of the rhythm of your life, it is full of misdemeanour emotional expressions because it is something you have played with your whole life in complete unawareness.
Now what do we mean by emotional misdemeanour expressions? Well, quite frankly, that you emote with an expression of unworthiness at the drop of a hat.
What the world needs to understand is that there is no place for dis-rhythm IF there is appropriate emotional conduct. Appropriate emotional conduct comes through as calm and reason, and it is a reason we are going to call it blissful instead of wistful, blessed instead of precious, and persevering instead of onerous.
Where would we like to put the spectrum of emotion? In your lap with a giant crystal ball so you could see into the future the outcome of each emotional outburst that you participate in. There really is no point in this, though, because what’s the point of living if you’re always monitoring and self-checking? What you want is a life filled with joyful rhythm and expression. And so, we are going to spend the bulk of our time discussing this direction of powerful potentials.
This isn’t to say that there isn’t time or reason for a quick emotional outburst of another formation. It's just that there is a reason and purposefulness in high expression. And the reason is this: it is who you are.
It is who you are saying you are, each and every time you emote. And if you could see your higher self’s emotional expression each time you emote through a fearful apparatus, you would understand how deeply you have been hurting yourself through poor emotional conduct.
It is really an expression of the Heart Mind and though we have said this previously, we have decided to repeat ourselves for the simple purpose of congruence.
What you say carries a resonance.
What you feel carries a resonance.
What you think carries a resonance.
And when all these aspects are in emotional congruence, there is a recipient of order and function or disorder and distinction. The place this pivots is on the dime of the emotional experience of expression. So for all our purposes, this is simply saying that all negative expression of emotional experience align you to negative potential of emotional outcome.
And so, were we to be the ones walking in your shoes, we would spend every moment of every day walking on the bright side of the road. The sunny side of the street. The heart does not deny what it wants; the heart is denied what it wants by being in expression of an incongruent emotional experience.
The heart wants to know itself backwards and forwards, and this is where we would spend all our time. In getting to know your heart with a purposeful expression of joy and wonder. Not because it is not warranted to know the self through the occasional outburst of random specific misdemeanour expression. But because it is the most powerful thing you can do to remain in alignment with your higher self and your high wisdom.
The expression of high wisdom is where we begin our study of emotional congruence. How could you not see the world for what it is if you could truly see the world for the truth of who you are? You are a being so divine, so extraordinary, so expressive that each and every thought you think and feeling you have finds its way forward into your emotional expression of experience.
Now, what does this tell you about your Self?
That you are extraordinary. That you are powerful. And that you are often filling your teacup with yesterday’s news and experience of expression because you have planted it there yourself through the expression of experience known only as self-deprecation and limited experience of expression.
Now what are you going to do about that? Sit idly by and ‘poor you,’ yourself with another look of yesterday’s expression and experience, or begin to get curious and accountable to your own expression of experience of high wisdom?
High wisdom lies where the dawning portal of discovery exists. It sits there idly upon a shelf waiting for you to come and explore it, but all you seem to want to do is pick up the paper and read yesterday’s news. Gotta tell you, the world is full of dull-boy experiences because this is the format many have chosen as their life experience of expression.
Where does this go sideways? And where does this go right the way that you want it to be going? It goes sideways in our expression of incongruent emotion. And so, for now let’s think of incongruent emotions as a form of serious indicator that something has not gone the way you would have preferred it to.
The world sees itself forward through the eyes of fear simply because it is this particular set of blinders that you have been seeing through for your entire life. Now that’s an extremist sort of statement, and it’s not meant to hurt or wound, but it will no doubt begin to fire up some form of emotional expression.
Now, what are you going to do with that emotional expression? Be curious and seek to look deeper for the reason that it has fired up an emotionally expressive experience of your choosing or not choosing? Or are you going to quietly put the paper down and think to yourself, ‘I wonder why that is? Isn’t that curious? I wonder what that could mean for me and my own experience. For me and someone I care about’s experience and expression of self-worth?’
Self-worth is the reason we are talking most heavily about the expression and experience of doubt.
Doubt is a wayfarer waiting to express itself in a ruinous tone. Ruination exists because there is a lack of clarity and focus.
And if only this portal of expression and experience of life could be understood more clearly, there would be a new path of formal expression of experience for almost every body. And every body is impacted by this experience of expression of doubt.
It’s insidious, and it’s important to know how doubt behaves so you can root it out of the nested experience of living your life of expression. Were you to see from backwards to forwards, you would know where you carry doubt into every expression of your daily experience. And since that’s not practical or rewarding, let's simply say that knowing where you are in doubt, is as important as knowing where you are in certainty. And certainty rings with a tone of dead stillness.
You will come to recognize this as the point where the mind stops volleying the next distressing thought around you. It simply drops into a rhythm of perfect calm. And yes, calm is a rhythm. It is a rhythm of congruence. It is a rhythm of the absolute, and for this reason it is known as a high-level emotional experience of expression.
It brings your life forward in congruence and in purpose and kicks the waver out of every doubtful sail that has been strung up on a broken ship's mast, leading you through a life of misdirection and misdiagnosis of ill health. The righting of the mast of wisdom is the place where we see all expression of experience finally and truly moving into a position of alignment and congruence.
The experience of expression is no doubt, the most serious conversation we are going to have, and yet we want to keep it light and not ominous because that is where the first expression of misalignment begins—with an ominous thought instead of a simple, playful one. So let’s not dig down. Let’s dig out and be free.
Free to choose a better life. Free to choose a better experience of expression. And free to self-correct some areas of our lives that have begun to go wrong or sideways, as we would prefer to call it, because there is never really anything wrong with what you are doing.
There is only one preferred experience of expression over another. And this is the place you begin choosing forward, through your certainty. And through your light you will see this as the most powerful choice of expression, and from this point forward you are going to start recognizing when the experience or expression of doubt is sneaking its toe into the water and colouring everything a real scummy brown flavour.
It isn’t that there is no room for hope; it is that hope is denied simply because it can’t be seen.
And so for now, let’s look to the high life expression as one that is paved in gold. So follow the yellow brick road to your expression of experience of high wisdom instead of abdicating it to some other experience of expression that might not be worthy of your time and expression of experience.
These are the rules set forward in doubt:
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It always happens this way.
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There’s no hope.
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There’s no point
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And what’s the use?
The rules set forward in certainty are just as clarifying:
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What a tremendous thing.
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Boy, am I feeling lucky today.
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And what a wonderful idea! I wish I had thought of that.
And all manner of expression in stillness from a point of certainty and calm, build your life forward like a brick shithouse, and when it hits the road, it’s gonna be solid and thick and not a wishy-washy wondering of disapproval.
It will always be that way for you if you choose to see your way forward through the rhythm of expression instead of the doubt of a misplaced Heart and Mind. And Heart and Mind is your powerhouse of expression; and for this reason alone, you want to understand how it affects your experience and expression.
So, let’s wrap back around to this idea of superconsciousness. Superconscious is an expression that is available and in resonance for every body. Every body knows the self through this way, and it is the most powerful portal of expression. If only you knew how you slam the door on it everyday and cast aside your world’s highest potential of experience for the purpose of recycling yesterday’s old news forward.
It’s time to break that bad rhythm cycle and set yourself up with a new template of experience of expression.
Let’s call it, ‘The rhythm train self-denial gets halted and rerouted to the land of your heart's desire.’
Oh wait, that's a little lengthy and complicated. Let’s call it, ‘Living your best life.’
No, I think that one’s been used before. Let’s call it, ‘The life experience I choose.’
No wait, let’s call it ‘Happiness.’ That will get everyone’s attention? Or will it?
What you are really and truly saying is, ‘I want to be Me.’
So, be Me. Be You.
Do the thing that makes you feel most fulfilled, and you will be walking yourself forward into your most empowered life. That’s all you can ever do. Walk forward. Keep walking; at some point, the rhythmic call of the way of doubt will swiftly and suddenly stop seeing itself forward with you. And that’s the beginning of a bright new day of experience and expression.
It’s about time. Don’t you think you deserve more of that, spent the way you want to spend it? It’s your dime. Better figure out which way you want to spend it.
Your portal of expression is based on the congruence that lines up with your Heart and Mind. And so for each and every step you take forward, you are either lining up with your superconsciousness or dialing down the volume of who you are. That’s it. That’s all that’s happening.
You are denying yourself the chance to express yourself in your fullness, and as you move forward, you will see that it is the only place left to go that you haven’t explored. You are in denial of self, and that is all you have been feeling these many long years of hard work and efforting.
The triumph of your life is to move forward in full expression of your true self and beingness. Why not move forward a little bit each and every day instead of walking around in circles with one worn-out shoe?
It’s all you can ever know, the truth of who you are. Why not start today and simply move by picking one foot up and gently placing it in front of the other?
That’s where we’re going, straightforward into the land of the dreams you want to be living.
by Janice Brown (November 20, 2021)
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