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Sometimes, things seem to bubble up
out of me like a fresh water spring.
When this phenomenon occurs I try to
open as wide as I can to the rush of thoughts.
Here are some of the Bubbles.
Quid Pro Quo
The word means “ something given or done in exchange for something else” .
I have been reading Wayne Dyer’s Change Your Thoughts - Change Your Life: Living the Wisdom of the Tao, recently. The book takes each verse of the Tao, and then Dr. Dyer explains his thoughts on what the words mean. I am now on verse 36, and I don’t mind saying, this has taken sometime. The verses stimulate, stretch, and challenge me. Changes happen within me I am not aware of until I am suddenly confronted with a new thought.
Here is one of them.
I took the dogs out for a walk yesterday in the sunshine. Two things happened to me that in retrospect I believe shifted my way of looking at things. I enjoy these walks because they give me a chance to ponder about life with the boundless beauty of the universe all around me.
One of my goals or dreams is to have the freedom to take those walks every single day. As it is now I also commute 2 hours a day to a full time job. My dream is to be free of that. I equate reaching that goal to be a product of what I can give to others in the form of inspiration, and service. I have a kind of quid pro quo about achieving my dream. In other words, if I give enough I will earn my dream. Like the flash of the sun rising over the mountain, I realized as long as I had this quid pro quo in place, I could not achieve my dream. I was using a medium of exchange where one is not necessary. My joy is just to give, all else will come to me, there is no exchange; as long as I hold the idea of an exchange I am bound by a contradiction of purpose, I am caught in a scarcity that is measured by how much I give. The scarcity is: I am offering a limited amount of giving equal to what I wish to receive and not one penny more. I am a hoarder in a sea of abundance.
Have I totally left the idea of an equation behind? Honestly, no. But I am slowly letting go.
The other event, on the same walk ,happened so quickly after my flash of insight, I don’t know how I missed its significance.
I received an affirmation of my thoughts in the form of a wonderful young lady who happened to be out jogging. The dogs, ever desirous of more petting rushed up to her to get petted. She greeted them in such an open and warm manner they were both smitten. Then she looked up at me, flashed a smile, and said, “What a beautiful day.”
We greet people on this walk all the time and exchange pleasantries, yet this was different in a way I really couldn’t put my finger on. I surmise now, she acted as an angel to give me a glimpse of the unmeasured joy of the Tao.
Here are the words of the Tao, in Verse 35 on the subject of which I speak.
How bland and insipid are the things of this world
When one compares them to the Tao!
Other Notes:
It doesn’t matter that I keep starting over, only that I keep starting.
With the cognitive spark came two questions. How? Why?
Why do we struggle to put ourselves into other peoples’ boxes and then try to make the box fit?
I’ll have more to say on the last one soon.
Nick Grimshawe
The SunShine Guy
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