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23 July 2010

Flowing

Flowing is a lovely experience, it’s life, life force, in reality there is nothing else, life is a flow and we can only flow, but we can think we are not flowing. This harms us because we want to go against the flow, we don’t understand, we don’t accept, so pain emerges. Pain is an indicator of a ‘not flowing’ state.
Some people are impulsive, these people will enter the water without thinking, they can even die because they rely only on themselves to survive.
Some people think they can't enter in the water all their life because there is always some thing that isn't right, these people also rely only on themselves.
What is flowing? In a story of the great Tao master Chuang Tzu, Confucius arrives to a river where even the fishs are too afraid to swim. Right in the middle of the water, there is a man with long hair. What does a thinker like Confucius think? That the man is in danger and a thinker with a good heart always wants always to help others, so he helps his ego…
Naturally he sends his disciples :) When they return, they said to him: that man is only swimming, he is not in danger! How it’s possible asks Confucius… a head alone doesn’t understand flowing, the man comes up to him and tries to explain: “in the beginning there was the water and me… now there is no water and there is no me, we are one, we flow”.
He who thinks too much is centered in the head, he who is impulsive is centered in the belly, he who flows is centered in the heart and head, belly and heart are one.

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