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Getting all the answers is not what you want; what you want is to have no more questions.
In natural life, what is free choice? For example, there is the seed of a tree containing a genetic code that activates itself when the requirements and conditions for growth are met—soil, water, heat, light, air. The seed contains all of the tree’s information, which is deployed at the right time. Now what choice does the tree have? To be a tree or to not be a tree… ? A tree is always a tree, not a bee or a bird. In whatever form or shape the tree comes, it is dependent upon genetic code and environmental conditions.
Expectations are the biggest obstacles to seeing this moment as it is. They are the shoulds and should nots, the wants and don’t wants—the musts, needs, and other mind weeds.
Just like weeds in the garden, sneaky expectations may come back. Don’t let them ruin the show.
Return to the uninterpreted moment; your truth is there, before the stories. That’s where quiet and peace can invariably be found.
What is, simply is, without any manager, orchestrator, or puppet master pulling strings. Life is just happening, and everything is happening within it, as it. Nothing is separate from anything else. Everything is dependent upon everything else as one movement, one dance—empty and yet so rich in its fullness.
The story does not disappear, but it is seen as empty, not solid, not that serious, and, sometimes, even hilarious. It still appears that there is a “me,” but it is known to be a useful concept, not the truth. Then, the mind can relax and come back to it’s natural state of being open, curious, joyful, playful, and free. It can notice spaciousness and oneness when it is no longer trying to fit and organize experience into a frame of fixed ideas.
