People fight a lot in the rural West, mostly about land. My father’s chest, full of poison, rose and fell through the wind of a machine unplugged, it simply fell and stayed there, as dead as my daughter was alive. My daughter was being pushed through the waters of my womb with forces I could not have stopped for all my might.
There, the option of opposition seemed impossible. When my first child was born and when I watched my father die. There have been two times I have truly emptied my boat. Through this sort of surrender, he suggests that we will come fully into being. As the boat approaches, he skillfully puts out his oar to steer the other boat aside without collision or damage to either vessel.Ĭhuang-tzu suggests that we relate to the world from that openhearted emptiness that allows us to let control of the world go by not opposing the flow of what is. If it is an empty boat, there is no one to fight. “Even though he be a bad-tempered man, he will not become angry.” That rather than raging and fighting against the oncoming boat, he might consider imagining the boat empty. But Chuang-tzu suggests that that same fellow could relate differently with his world. “Steer aside!” he yells to the person he thinks he sees, swearing and gesticulating. As he navigates the waters, he sees another boat coming toward him.
The Chinese poet and sage Chuang-tzu speaks of a man crossing a river on a boat. Truly, what is there to say to someone who believes there is only one way, and they are there to prove it to you? I get lost in their crystals and moons and stars having some hold over the was’s and will be’s of my life. Those who call their god, The Universe, seem to have a broader way, but usually not one I can peg down too well. When I read the words of Jesus in the Bible, I don’t see all their no’s for all his yeses. And bash you bloody with the singularity of their Almighty. I live for passion, because without it, we denounce the gift of life. I usually flee, hot and wet, knowing that I have given yet another zealot power they don’t deserve, but require. But I oppose fanaticism, fanatically speaking.
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