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The Tao te Ching number 10 says: “Can you coax your mind from its wanderings and keep to the original oneness?” When our mind is quiet we are at ease, life flows in a natural rhythm. Experiencing our body sensations allows this to naturally flow through us and we find that Being is what is there. ~Alain & Jody Herriott
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Every difficulty is a gateway to resolution. The act of feeling and allowing those feelings to unwind is the beginning of becoming us. This unwinding is the entry to Being, for as each issue is felt and unwound what is left is peace and balance. Enjoy! ~Alain & Jody Herriott |
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In number eleven of the Tao te Ching the last line says: “We work with being, but non-being is what we use.” Realize we each come from this special place of potential; it is infinite in variety and all we need to do is let it lead us in our lives. It will carry us like a benevolent parent, to a beautiful creation that arises all around us. ~Alain & Jody Herriott
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We are always talking about feeling. Of course everyone feels. Some people assign more value to their feelings while others push them away. We all realize that we are feeling beings and when the feelings are pushed away often conflict arises within us. Take the time to experience the sensations within your feelings. Allow them to arise within you and travel through your body. In this way the mind begins to get the feedback that the body naturally produces to complete itself, this is the beginning of truly Being. ~Alain & Jody Herriott
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We are in a state of constant change. Our inherent nature is to both run towards and yet resist change. While change is always with us, we can be in a space of balance, wholeness and peace. This peace is not stagnant, it is a dynamic integration where Being is experienced. All it takes is the willingness to feel the subtle nuances within us, allow them to unfold and the rest is simply there. Being only needs the willingness to feel. ~Alain & Jody Herriott
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The search for who we are and what we should do is often on our minds. As we feel the sensations within us, these internal conflicts begin to drop away and bit by bit we discover we are able to make good choices, learn from our experiences and finally realize we are enough, sufficient to the day and our life.
Enjoy the journey. ~Alain & Jody Herriott
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We join spokes together in a wheel, but it is the center hole that makes the wagon move.
We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want.
We hammer wood for a house, but it is the inner space that makes it livable.
We work with being, but non-being is what we use.
In our life we are always looking at what is around us and believe what we see there is what is useful. Yet as the quote tells us how we choose to use something can be viewed from a very different perspective. We can choose to draw from innovation, from a place of inspiration that moves well beyond the norm and many will say amazing, yet we know that living in that quiet space of non-being all possibilities exist. Enjoy ~Alain & Jody Herriott
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When we feel at the sensation level it is like we are connecting to our origins. It is a quiet peaceful way to live. Every observed limitation then becomes the road to balance. When we stay at the sensation level the “drama” drops away and being is the result. Enjoy. ~Alain & Jody Herriott
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Most everyone that is on the path to self knowledge (the art of being) is doing so from the perspective of trying to achieve it. Interestingly, it is this attitude that most holds us back from arriving at “Being”. We must also remember that it is an evolving process, not just an end result. Many believe that we will arrive and that will be it. In our experience, this is not the case, we are a constant evolution of awakening. Today’s understanding is tomorrow stepping stone to more awareness and due to its subtlety, more Being. Enjoy the journey. ~Alain & Jody Herriott
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“When you seek a cause you have already created a result.” This is such a lovely phrase. The very act of doing anything puts into motion a whole series of events and any expectation within that creates Need. That is the nature of all Maya. That is because if we seek we are in desire. This action causes expectation and that leads to tension. If we choose to feel our feeling within any issue, then we unfold and balance and openness is the result. We end up in harmony and there is nothing that needs to be done as we are simply there. ~Alain & Jody Herriott (quote from Gravity Dreams by L.E. Modesitt, Jr.)
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